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ZEPHANIAH
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- Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God:
- For the day of the Lord is at hand:
- For the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice,
- He hath bid his guests.
- And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice,
- That I will punish the princes, and the king's children,
- And all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
- In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold,
- Which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
- And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord,
- That there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate,
- And an howling from the second,
- And a great crashing from the hills.
- Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh,
- For all the merchant people are cut down;
- All they that bear silver are cut off.
- And it shall come to pass at that time,
- That I will search Jerusalem with candles,
- And punish the men that are settled on their lees:
- That say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.
- Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation:
- They shall also build houses, but not inhabit them;
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