Behold, (A)the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

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14 The (A)great (B)day of the Lord is near,
Near and coming very quickly;
Listen, the day of the Lord!
[a]In it the warrior (C)cries out bitterly.
15 That day is a day of anger,
A day of (D)trouble and distress,
A day of destruction and desolation,
A day of (E)darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
16 A day of (F)trumpet and battle cry
Against the (G)fortified cities
And the high corner towers.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:14 Lit There

Final Admonition

[a]For behold, the day is coming, (A)burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be (B)chaff; and the day that is coming will (C)set them ablaze,” says the Lord of armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branches.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 Ch 3:19 in Heb

“Behold, I am going to send you (A)Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.

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