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ZEPHANIAH
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- Both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it;
- Their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds:
- For he shall uncover the cedar work.
- This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly,
- That said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me:
- How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!
- Every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
- Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
- She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction;
- She trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.
- Her princes within her are roaring lions;
- Her judges are evening wolves;
- They gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
- Her prophets are light and treacherous persons:
- Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
- The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity:
- Every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not;
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