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I said to my people,
    ‘You will fear me.
    You will accept correction!’
    Then their homeland would not be wiped out
    even though I have punished them.
        Still, they continued to be corrupt in everything they did.”
Yahweh declares, “Just wait!
    One day I will stand up as a witness.
    I have decided to gather nations,
        to bring kingdoms together,
            and to pour my rage, my burning anger, on them.
    The whole land will be consumed by my fiery fury.

Israel Will Turn Away from Sin

“Then I will give all people pure lips
    to worship Yahweh
        and to serve him with one purpose.

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Of Jerusalem I thought,
    ‘Surely you will fear me
    and accept correction!’(A)
Then her place of refuge[a] would not be destroyed,
    nor all my punishments come upon[b] her.
But they were still eager
    to act corruptly(B) in all they did.
Therefore wait(C) for me,”
    declares the Lord,
    “for the day I will stand up to testify.[c]
I have decided to assemble(D) the nations,(E)
    to gather the kingdoms
and to pour out my wrath(F) on them—
    all my fierce anger.(G)
The whole world will be consumed(H)
    by the fire of my jealous anger.

Restoration of Israel’s Remnant

“Then I will purify the lips of the peoples,
    that all of them may call(I) on the name of the Lord(J)
    and serve(K) him shoulder to shoulder.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 3:7 Or her sanctuary
  2. Zephaniah 3:7 Or all those I appointed over
  3. Zephaniah 3:8 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew will rise up to plunder