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“I’ll utterly sweep away everything from[a] the land,”
    declares the Lord.
“I’ll consume both human beings and animals—
    I’ll consume the birds of the sky,
the fish in the sea,
    and the wicked along with their sin,[b]
when I eliminate human beings from the land,”
        declares the Lord.

“I will also stretch out my hand against Judah,
    and upon all inhabitants of Jerusalem.
I’ll wipe out every trace of Baal from this place,
    and the name[c] of the pagan priests[d],
        along with my own[e] priests.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:2 Lit. from the face of
  2. Zephaniah 1:3 Lit. with the heap of rubble
  3. Zephaniah 1:4 Or authority
  4. Zephaniah 1:4 Lit. the Chemarim; i.e. idol worshiping priests
  5. Zephaniah 1:4 The Heb. lacks my own