Isaiah, nor even with Hosea in this particular. He has no great imaginative powers; no deep insight into the human heart is reflected in his utterances; nor any keen sensitiveness to the beauties of nature. His harp is not attuned to the finer harmonies of life like that of Jeremiah.”2 Comments like this are probably unfair. It is true that Zephaniah depends on some of the earlier writings and specifically alludes to a number of them. The call for silence before the sovereign Lord in 1:7 reminds