Zephaniah 1:11-13

New Living Translation

¹¹Wail in sorrow, all you who live in the market area,^[a]
for all the merchants and traders will be destroyed.

¹²“I will search with lanterns in Jerusalem’s darkest corners
    to punish those who sit complacent in their sins.
They think the Lord will do nothing to them,
    either good or bad.
¹³So their property will be plundered,
    their homes will be ransacked.
They will build new homes
    but never live in them.
They will plant vineyards
    but never drink wine from them.

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Footnotes

1:11 Or in the valley, a lower section of Jerusalem. Hebrew reads the Maktesh.

Zephaniah 1:11-13

New International Version

¹¹Wail,^(A) you who live in the market district^[a];
    all your merchants will be wiped out,
    all who trade with^[b] silver will be destroyed.^(B)
¹²At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps
    and punish those who are complacent,^(C)
    who are like wine left on its dregs,^(D)
who think, ‘The Lord will do nothing,^(E)
    either good or bad.’^(F)
¹³Their wealth will be plundered,^(G)
    their houses demolished.
Though they build houses,
    they will not live in them;
though they plant vineyards,
    they will not drink the wine.”^(H)