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Zephaniah 1:2–3

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The Lord’s Day of Judgment is Approaching

1:2“I will destroy3 everything from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

1:3“I will destroy people and animals;

I will destroy the birds in the sky

and the fish in the sea.

(The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.)4

I will remove5 humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 3 The Hebrew text combines the infinitive absolute of אָסַף (’asaf, “gather up, sweep away”) with a Hiphil prefixed first person form of סוּף (suf, “come to an end”; see Jer 8:13 for the same combination). This can be translated literally, “Sweeping away, I will bring to an end.” Some prefer to emend the text so that the infinitive and finite form of the verb are from the same root (“I will certainly sweep away,” if from אָסַף [cf. , , ]; “I will certainly bring to an end,” if from סוּף). For a discussion of proposals see J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (), 167, 169.
  2. 4 Heb “And the stumbling blocks [or, “ruins”] with the evil”; or “the things that make the evil stumble.” The line does not appear in the original form of the ; it may be a later scribal addition. The present translation assumes the “stumbling blocks” are idolatrous images of animals, birds, and fish. See J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (), 167, and Adele Berlin, Zephaniah (), .
  3. 5 Heb “cut off.”

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“I will utterly sweep away everything

from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

“I will sweep away man and beast;

I will sweep away the birds of the heavens

and the fish of the sea,

and the rubble with the wicked.

I will cut off mankind

from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“I will sweep away everything

from the face of the earth,”

declares the Lord.

“I will sweep away both man and beast;

I will sweep away the birds in the sky

and the fish in the sea—

and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.”

“When I destroy all mankind

on the face of the earth,”

declares the Lord,

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CSBChristian Standard Bible

I will completely sweep away everything

from the face of the earth—

this is the Lord’s declaration.

I will sweep away people and animals;

I will sweep away the birds of the sky

and the fish of the sea,

and the ruins along with the wicked.

I will cut off mankind

from the face of the earth.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

“I will sweep away everything

from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

“I will sweep away people and animals alike.

I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea.

I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble,

and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“I will surely destroy everything

from the face of the earth”—a declaration of Yahweh.

“I will destroy humanity and beast;

I will destroy the birds of the sky

and the fish of the sea,

and the stumbling blocks with the wicked.

And I will cut off humankind

from the face of the earth”—a declaration of Yahweh.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.

I will consume man and beast;

I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea,

And the stumblingblocks with the wicked;

And I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.

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