Zephaniah 1:2 - Easy To Read Version The Lord says, “I will destroy everything on earth! {\cf2\super [1]} Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition By taking away I will make an end and I will utterly consume and sweep away all things from the face of the earth, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible I will wipe out everything from the earth, says the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version While gathering, I will gather together all things from the face of the earth, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Gathering, I will gather together all things from off the face of the land, saith the Lord: |
So the Lord said, “I will destroy all the people that I made on the earth. I will destroy every man and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air. Why? Because I am sorry that I have made all these things.”
The Aramean army came with a small group of men, but the Lord let them defeat a very large army from Judah. The Lord did this because the people of Judah left the Lord God their ancestors {\cf2\super [282]} followed. So Joash was punished.
And so the things the Lord told the people of Israel through the prophet Jeremiah really happened. The Lord had said through Jeremiah: “This place will be an empty wasteland for 70 years. {\cf2\super [456]} This will happen to make up for the Sabbath rests {\cf2\super [457]} that the people didn’t do.”
But I will give the order,’ this message is from the Lord, ‘to bring the Babylonian army back to Jerusalem. That army will fight against Jerusalem. They will capture it and set it on fire and burn it down. And I will destroy the cities in the land of Judah. Those cities will become empty deserts. No people will live there.’”
Jeremiah, also say this to Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord says: Jehoiakim, you burned that scroll. You said, “Why did Jeremiah write that the king of Babylon will surely come and destroy this land? Why did he say that the king of Babylon will destroy both men and animals in this land?”
So the Lord says this: “I will show my anger against this place. I will punish people and animals. I will punish the trees in the field and the crops that grow in the ground. My anger will be like a hot fire—and no person will be able to stop it.”
The Lord did what he planned to do.\par He has done what he said he would do.\par He has done what he commanded\par from times of long ago.\par He destroyed, and he had no pity.\par He made your enemies happy\par because of what happened to you.\par He made your enemies strong.\par
The land was ruined by the people\par that lived there and by what they did.\par