Zephaniah 3:5-7

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⁵ But the Lord is among all the people in the city.^[a]

He will do what is right.

He is always the honest judge.

He never fails.

But the bad people do not know how to be ashamed.

⁶ ‘I have destroyed nations,’ the Lord says.

‘There is nobody in their strong towers now.

I have made their streets empty, so no people are there.

I have destroyed their cities.

So nobody lives in them now.

⁷ I said, “Now people in the city will respect me!

Now they will agree when people warn them.”

The people would have been safe if they had accepted it.

Then I would not have to destroy them.

But it did not happen. I had to punish them.

Still, the people got up early to do bad things.