‘On the day of the Lord’s sacrifice
    I will punish the officials
    and the king’s sons
and all those clad
    in foreign clothes.
On that day I will punish
    all who avoid stepping on the threshold,[a]
who fill the temple of their gods
    with violence and deceit.

10 ‘On that day,’
    declares the Lord,
‘a cry will go up from the Fish Gate,
    wailing from the New Quarter,
    and a loud crash from the hills.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:9 See 1 Samuel 5:5.