11 Wail, you residents of the Hollow,[a]
for all the merchants[b] will be silenced;
all those loaded with silver will be cut off.

12 And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps
and punish those who settle down comfortably,[c](A)
who say to themselves:
The Lord will do nothing—good or bad.(B)
13 Their wealth will become plunder
and their houses a ruin.
They will build houses but never live in them,
plant vineyards but never drink their wine.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:11 Or the market district
  2. 1:11 Or Canaanites
  3. 1:12 Lit who thicken on their dregs

11 Wail,(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)
12 At 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)
13 Their 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)

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:11 Or the Mortar
  2. Zephaniah 1:11 Or in