Zephaniah 1:3-5

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³I will remove men and animals.

I will remove the birds that fly in the air.

I will also remove the fish that live in the sea.

I will remove all the bad people.

Bad people cause trouble for other people.

Yes, I will remove all the people from the ground.

It is the Lord who is speaking.

⁴I will destroy Judah.

I will remove all the people who live in Jerusalem.

I will remove all those who believe in the false god Baal.

I will remove Baal's priests.^[a]

⁵Some people stand on the roof tops to worship the sun, the moon and the stars.^[b] I will remove those people.

Some people say that they love me. But they say also that they love Malcam (a false god). So I will remove them, too.’^[c]

1:4 priests: See 2 Kings 23:5.
1:5 the sun, the moon and the stars: Many people in w Judah worshipped the sun and the stars. See 2 Kings 23:11; Jeremiah 19:13; Ezekiel 8:16.
1:5 Malcam: The people who worshipped the false god Malcam killed their own children. They thought that it made Malcam happy.

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