Zephaniah 1:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸On that day I will punish
national leaders
    and sons of the king,
along with all who follow
    foreign customs.^[a]
⁹I will punish worshipers
    of pagan gods^[b]
and cruel palace officials
    who abuse their power.

¹⁰I, the Lord, promise
that on that day
noisy crying will be heard
from Fish Gate, New Town,
and Upper Hills.

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Footnotes

1.8 follow foreign customs: Hebrew “wear foreign clothes.”
1.9 worshipers … gods: The Hebrew text has “all who jump over the threshold,” which was a Philistine religious practice (see 1 Samuel 5.5).