Zephaniah 3
Geneva Bible 1599
1Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the robbing citie.
2She heard not the voyce: she receiued not correction: she trusted not in the Lord: she drew not neere to her God.
3Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow.
4Her prophets are light, and wicked persons: her priests haue polluted the Sanctuarie: they haue wrested the Lawe.
5The iust Lord is in the middes thereof: he will doe none iniquitie: euery morning doeth hee bring his iudgement to light, he faileth not: but the wicked will not learne to be ashamed.
6I haue cut off the nations: their towres are desolate: I haue made their streetes waste, that none shall passe by: their cities are destroyed without man and without inhabitant.
7I said, Surely thou wilt feare me: thou wilt receiue instruction: so their dwelling shoulde not be destroyed howsoeuer I visited them, but they rose earely and corrupted all their workes.
8Therefore wait ye vpon me, saith the Lord, vntill the day that I rise vp to the praye: for I am determined to gather the nations, and that I will assemble the kingdomes to powre vpon them mine indignation, euen all my fierce wrath: for all the earth shall be deuoured with the fire of my ielousie.
9Surely then will I turne to the people a pure language, that they may all call vpon the Name of the Lord, to serue him with one cosent.
10From beyonde the riuers of Ethiopia, the daughter of my dispersed, praying vnto me, shall bring me an offering.