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10 “For the (A)mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of the (B)wilderness a funeral lamentation,
Because they are (C)turned into ruin so that no one passes through,
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both the (D)birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

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10 I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.(A)
They are desolate and untraveled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds(B) have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

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How long is the (A)land to mourn
And the (B)plants of every field to dry up?
Because of the (C)evil of those who inhabit it,
(D)Animals and birds have been swept away,
Because men have said, “He will not see our latter (E)ending.”

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How long will the land lie parched(A)
    and the grass in every field be withered?(B)
Because those who live in it are wicked,
    the animals and birds have perished.(C)
Moreover, the people are saying,
    “He will not see what happens to us.”

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“I will end (A)man and beast;
I will end the (B)birds of the sky
And the fish of the sea
And the [a](C)ruins along with the wicked;
And I will cut off man from the face of the ground,” declares Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:3 Or stumbling blocks

“I will sweep away both man and beast;(A)
    I will sweep away the birds in the sky(B)
    and the fish in the sea—
    and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.”[a]

“When I destroy all mankind
    on the face of the earth,”(C)
declares the Lord,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:3 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.