Zephaniah 1:7-9

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⁷Be quiet! The Lord God is here.

It will soon be the day of the Lord.^[a]

The Lord has made his sacrifice ready.^[b]

He has made the people ready who will give the sacrifice to him.’^[c]

⁸‘When it is time for the Lord's sacrifice, I will punish the rulers and the king's sons.

I will punish everyone who wears clothes like foreign people do.’^[d]

⁹‘I will also punish the people who rush into other people's houses. They do that because they want to rob those people.

On that same day, I will also punish other robbers. Those people fill their masters' houses with the things that they take.’

1:7 ‘day of the Lord’ is the time when God comes as the great judge.
1:7 sacrifice: Here, this does not mean an animal. It means the people who worshipped false gods.
1:7 the people that God made ready: the army of the Chaldeans.
1:8 Foreign people probably put these clothes on when they worshipped their own gods.

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