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The word of Yahweh that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.

And it shall be [that] on the day of the sacrifice of Yahweh, I will punish the officials and the sons of the king and those who dress in foreign clothing.

Verse ConceptsForeignersDressForeign ThingsSacrifice

And on that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill up the house of their master [with] violence and deceit.

Verse ConceptsPursuing ViolenceThose Who Deceivedjumping

"And there shall be on that day"--a declaration of Yahweh-- "a {loud outcry} from the Fish Gate, and a wailing from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.

Verse ConceptsBangsSecond ThingA Fourth Part

And it shall be [that] at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men {whose senses are dulled from drinking}, who say in their hearts, 'Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.'

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceComplacencyLampsReward, DivineSin, God's Judgment OnHoly Spirit, Types OfImpietyInfidelity To GodGod Searching For PeopleGood Or BadFeeling

That day [will be] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds and thick clouds,

Verse ConceptsBlackSorrowGod DestroyingThe Fact Of That DayThe Ungodly SufferingThe Coming Day Of God's WrathAstronomical SignsCosmic Disturbancescloudswrath

This [is] the city of rejoicing that lived securely; the one saying in her heart, "{I am, and there is none besides me}." How she has become a desolation, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidencePride, Examples OfRidicule, Nature OfArrogant ExistenceAbasement, Examples OfHissingUnique NationsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

Her prophets [are] arrogant men of treachery; her priests have defiled [that which is] holy; they do violence to [the] law.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSanctuaryTreacheryCorrupt PriestsPollutionsWicked ProphetsLack Of HolinessUnfaithful

"I have cut off nations; their strongholds are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, so that none pass through. Their cities have been destroyed [and are] without a man, without an inhabitant.

Verse ConceptsRoadsDestruction Of CitiesEmpty CitiesTragedy On The StreetsGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Killed The Peoples

I have said, 'Surely she will fear me; she will accept discipline. Then her dwelling place will not be cut down, [nor] all that I have brought upon her.' Surely they rise early; they make all their deeds corrupt.

Verse ConceptseagernessPunishment, By GodRashnessFear Of God, Results OfRising EarlyFear God!Roses

Because then I will {make the speech of the nations pure}; that all of them might call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him {in unison}.

Verse ConceptsShouldersCalling upon GodHoliness, Purpose OfPurity, Moral And SpiritualCompanionshipLanguagePuritySpeechpeople

On that day you shall not be humiliated on account of all your deeds [by] which you have rebelled against me. For then I shall remove from your midst those exulting in your pride, and you shall no longer be haughty in {my holy mountain}.

Verse ConceptsMillenniumPride, Results OfSelf Righteousness, Nature OfStubbornness, Consequences OfPride, OriginHaughtinessThe Proud Will Be Abased

On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, "Fear not, O Zion; your hands shall not hang limp.

Verse ConceptsNo Strength To Cope

Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors; I will save the lame and gather the outcast. I will change them from shame to glory and {renown} throughout the whole world.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesEliminating ShameGod HealsNo DealingsPeople Have Honouruncertainty

At that time I will bring you [in]; at the time of my gathering you [together]. For I will make you {renowned} and praised among all the nations of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your eyes," says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsHomeProphecy, Methods Of OtGathering IsraelPeople Have HonourPraising Specific PeopleGiving Back

"[Is it] a time for you yourselves to dwell in your houses that have been paneled [while] this house [is] desolate?"

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesSelf IndulgenceUntimelinessDestruction Of The TempleBuilding HousesRight Time For PeopleNot The Timerebuilding

Go up the mountain and bring wood and build the house so that I may be pleased with it and honored,' says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfBuildingThe Second TempleGoing Up Mountainsrebuilding

'Who among you [is] left that saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it seem like nothing {to you}?

Verse ConceptsMemoriesSurvivors Of IsraelUnimportant ThingsThe First Temple

{from that time when} one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were [only] ten, and [when] one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there were [only] twenty.

Verse ConceptsShortage Of WineOther Volume Measures

'{Please consider} from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, {consider}:

Verse ConceptsFoundationsMonthanniversariesMonth 8Foundations Of BuildingsThinking Aright

'On that day,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,' {declares} Yahweh, 'and I will make you a signet ring, for I have chosen you,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts."

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDChosen InstrumentsMinistry, Nature OfRingsSealsServants Of The LordSymbols

{I had a vision in the night}, and look, a man riding on a red horse. And he [was] standing between the myrtle shrubs that [were] in the ravine, and behind him [were] red, reddish-brown, and white horses.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordNightVisionsWhiteVisions And Dreams In ScriptureRiding HorsesMyrtleRed Animals

And {I am extremely angry} with the nations that are at ease, for [while] I was a little angry, they {furthered disaster}."

Verse ConceptsSecurityDivine DispleasureDispleasureGod Angry With The NationsGod Saves From Sin And DeathThose At Ease

And I said to the angel [who was] talking with me, "What [are] these?" And he said to me, "These [are] the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theHorns In AllegoryWhat Is This?jerusalem

and I asked, "What [are] these coming to do?" And he answered, saying, "These [are] the horns that scattered Judah, {so that no man} lifted up his head; but these have come to frighten them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedHorns In AllegoryLifting HeadsWhat Do They Do?craftsmanship

And he said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited {like villages without walls} because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst.

Verse ConceptsRunning With NewsBoth Men And Animals SavedMany In Israelteenagerjerusalem

"Yes, look! I [am] going to wave my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their servants, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedWaving The HandGod Sending ProphetsGroups Of Slaves

"Many nations will join themselves to Yahweh on that day, and they will be my people, and I will dwell in your midst. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In ChristGod Living With UsUnited With GodThe Nations Before God

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my requirements, then you will judge my house, and you will also guard my courtyards, and I will give to you passageways among these that are standing here.

Verse ConceptsWalkingEntering The TempleWalking In The Ways Of GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsAccess to God

Listen, please, O Joshua the high priest, you and your companions that are sitting {before} you. For [the] men [are] a sign that, look, I [am] going to bring my servant [the] Branch.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDBranches, Illustrating MessiahCovenant, God's with DavidRemnantNames And Titles For ChristChrist, Names ForMessianic PropheciesPeople As Signs

For consider, the stone that {I set before} Joshua, on one stone [are] seven eyes. Look, {I am going to engrave an inscription on it},' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'and I will remove the guilt of that land in a single day.

Verse ConceptsengravingArtInscriptionsSeven ThingsOne DayStones As MonumentsGod Atoning

On that day,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'you will invite {one another} under [the] vine and under [the] fig tree.'"

Verse ConceptsFig treeInvitationsSittingVinesSitting In Security

And he said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see, and look, {a lampstand all of gold}, and a bowl [was] on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven lips on [each of] the lamps that [are] on its top.

Verse ConceptsThe Golden LampstandVisions And Dreams In ScriptureSeven LightsWhat Is This?Forties

"The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsFoundations Of BuildingsGod Sending ProphetsMan's Work Finishedconstructionfinishing

'I have sent it out,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing {falsely by my name}, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.'"

Verse ConceptsSwearing Oaths FalselyBuilding Stones RejectedHouses Under AttackWood And StoneSwearingflyingthieves

And I answered and said to the angel [that was] talking to me, "What [are] these, my lord?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?

"Collect from the exiles--from Heldai, Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, [all of] whom came from Babylon--and go on that day, go [to the] house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonThose who returned from exile

And those who are far off will come and build the temple of Yahweh, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. And it will happen if you will listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God."

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GoddiligenceDiligence, Examples OfWeights And Measures, DistancesThe Perfect TempleGod Sending ProphetsPeople From Far AwayRebuilding The Temple

[Are] not [these] the words that Yahweh proclaimed {through} the former prophets, when Jerusalem and {its surrounding towns} were inhabited and at ease, and the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?'"

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In IsraelInhabitationSaying The Same ThingsGod Spoke By The ProphetsThe ShephelahRevelation Through Prophets

'And I scattered them with a wind among all the nations that they had not known; the land was made desolate behind them-- no one crossing through [it] or returning--and they made the desirable land a desolation.'"

Verse ConceptsWhirlwindsGod Scattering IsraelLand Becoming EmptyNot Knowing People

These [are] the things that you must do: speak truth, each [of you], with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates.

Verse ConceptsLawsuitsBusiness At The GatewayJudging RightlyPerforming The TruthSpeaking TruthDoing God's WorksSeek PeaceJudgmentsTelling The Truth

Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '[It will happen] again that nations and the inhabitants of many cities will come.

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Before God

Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'In those days ten men from {all the nations of every language} will take hold of the hem of a Judean man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard [that] God [is] with you!" '"

Verse ConceptsExperience, of GodClothingJews, TheLanguagesLast DaysGod With YouGoing TogetherTen PeopleGraspingJerusalem In Millennial Kingdom

And Yahweh their God will save them on that day, as the flock of his people; for [they are like] the stones of a diadem, glittering on his land.

Verse ConceptsJewelsChrist And His SheepSparklingGod Saves The NeedyJewellery And GodGod's Willjewelrycrowns

And I took my staff Kindness and broke it, to break my covenant that I {had made} with all the peoples.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahBreaking SticksBlessingBreaking The Covenantgraciousness

And it was broken on that day. Then the afflicted of the flock, the [ones who were] watching me, knew that it [was] the word of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

For look, I [am] raising up a shepherd in the land who will not attend to the [ones that are] perishing; he will not seek the young man, he will not heal the [ones that are] crushed and he will not sustain the healthy [ones]; he will devour the flesh of the {fattened ones} and tear apart [even] their hoofs.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdNeglecting PeopleFat AnimalsNot Seeking PeopleFeet Of CreaturesNo Healing

{And then} on that day I will make Jerusalem a stone weight for all the peoples. All those lifting it up will grievously hurt themselves, and all the nations of the earth will assemble against it.

Verse ConceptsRocksGathering Other NationsAll NationsThings Lifted Uplungsjerusalem

On that day,' {declares} Yahweh, 'I will strike every horse with confusion, and the one riding it with madness; but over the house of Judah {I will keep my eyes open}, and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

Verse ConceptsInsanityHealthMadnessWatchfulness, DivineRiding HorsesGod Seeing The RighteousGod BlindingPuzzlementBlindness

" 'On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a pan of fire among [sticks of] wood, and like a torch of fire among stalks of grain, and they will devour to [the] right and to [the] left all the surrounding peoples, and Jerusalem will be inhabited again [in] its place, in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsWoodFire Of JudgementBurning Plants

And Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over Judah.

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightThe Honourable Will Be Honoured

On that day Yahweh will put a shield around the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who stumbles among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David [will be] like God, like the angel of Yahweh, {before them}.

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineShieldsGod Being Our DefenceLike Good PeopleValidly Like GodWithout StrengthProtecting Your Family

{And then} on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations coming against Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsAttacks On Jerusalem Turned Back

On that day the wailing will be great in Jerusalem, like the wailing for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

Verse ConceptsMegiddoMourning Due To Catastropheanniversary

{And then}, on that day,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land.

Verse ConceptsImpurityNames Blotted OutAbandoning IdolsProphets Of Other Gods

{And then} on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive,

Verse ConceptsHairsNo VisionsAvoiding DeceitHairclothShame Of Bad Conduct

"O sword, awake against my shepherd, against [the] man [who is] my associate," {declares} Yahweh of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, so that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small [ones].

Verse ConceptsSheepUnfaithfulness, To PeopleInadequate ShepherdingJesus Christ, Prophecies OfChrist And His SheepProphecies Concerning ChristNames And Titles For ChristMessianic PropheciesAtonement, ForeordainedScattered Like SheepGod With ChristHurt And Betrayal

On that day his feet will stand on {the Mount of Olives}, which faces Jerusalem on [the] east; and {the Mount of Olives} will be split {in half}, from east to west, [by] a very great valley; and half of the mountain will withdraw toward the north, and the other half toward the south.

Verse ConceptsFeetWestThe Ground Being SplitEast And WestNorth And SouthHalf Of Things

{And then} on that day there will not be light, the precious things will congeal.

Verse ConceptsFrostCold WeatherDarkness At The End

{And then} on that day, living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea, and the other half to the western sea; it will happen [both] in the summer and in the winter.

Verse ConceptsSpring Of WaterValleysDead SeaMediterranean SeaSummerThe Holy Spirit Giving LifeEast And WestRunning Water From GodSummer And WinterHalf Of Things

And this will be the plague [with] which Yahweh will strike all the peoples that fight against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they [are] standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Verse ConceptsPeople RottingSocketsEyes HarmedDiseaseSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

{And then} on that day a great panic from Yahweh will fall on them, and {they will seize one another's hand}, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of {another}.

Verse ConceptsChaosAnarchyFear Will ComeKilling One Another

And if the clan of Egypt will not go up and come in, on them will be that plague Yahweh inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

Verse ConceptsLack Of Rain

This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

Verse Conceptscelebrating

On that day there will be [inscribed] on the bells of the horses, "Holy to Yahweh." And the cooking pots in the house of Yahweh will be [holy] like the sacrificial basins before the altar.

Verse ConceptsWritingBellsPots For Cooking And EatingTemple Utensils In UseHolinesscookingpot

And every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of hosts, and all those who sacrifice will come and will take from them, and will cook in them, and there will be no longer a {trader} in the house of Yahweh of hosts on that day.

Verse ConceptsPots For Cooking And EatingInterlopers In The Templecookingpot

[You are] presenting defiled food on my altar! But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying [that] the table of Yahweh is despised!

Verse ConceptsDefilement, Ceremonial CausesTablesInfidelity To GodUnclean SpiritsUnclean Animals

When you offer a blind [animal] for sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer [the] lame and the one who is ill, is that not wrong? Present it, please, to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? {Will he show you favor}?" says Yahweh of hosts.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAnimals, religious role ofBurnt offeringGovernorsImperfection, And God's PurposesSick AnimalsPleasing MenSacrificesSacrificeTithes And Offeringdistractionsclosuretrying

So then, {implore the favor of God} so that he will be gracious to us. "{This is what you have done}. {Will he show favor to any of you}?" says Yahweh of hosts.

Verse ConceptsWelcomed By GodPray For UsSeeking The Favour Of God

"Who also among you will shut [the temple] doors [so that] you will not kindle fire in vain [on] my altar? I take no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "and {I will not accept} an offering from your hand.

Verse ConceptsSelfishness, Shown InShutting DoorsBurning SacrificesUseless ReligionAltarsNot Pleasing GodNot Receiving

And you say, 'Look! [This is] a weariness,' and you sniff [with disdain] at it," says Yahweh of hosts. "And you bring [the] stolen, the lame, and the one that is sick--[this] you bring as the offering! Should I {accept it} from your hand?" says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsNosesSick AnimalsWeary Of God

"Then you will know that I have sent to you this command, that my covenant with Levi {continues}," says Yahweh of hosts.

Verse ConceptsDesign Of MarriageCovenant Made At Sinai

"They will be mine," says Yahweh of hosts, "on the day that I [am] acting, [my] treasured possession. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtPeople Of God, In OtTreasureUnity, Of God's PeopleChildren Blessedjewelrymakeup

You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I [am] going to act," says Yahweh of hosts.

Verse ConceptsFeetAshesWicked Described AsPromised VictoryTrampling PeopleGod Judges The Wickeddust

Now all this happened in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying,

Verse ConceptsPredestinationWork, Divine And HumanChrist's Fulfilment Of ProphecyGod Spoke By The ProphetsScriptures Fulfilled

And he sent them to Bethlehem [and] said, "Go, inquire carefully concerning the child, and when you have found [him], report to me so that I also may come [and] worship him."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitAdoration, Of ChristFinding PeopleTelling Of MovementsWorshipping Christ

Then Herod, [when he] saw that he had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent [soldiers] [and] executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region [around] it from [the age of] two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsCrimesFaithlessness, As DisobedienceBoysBitterness, Examples OfInnocence, Examples OfShrewdnessSuffering, Nature OfBethlehemInfanticideDeath Of All MalesBeing Found OutWhen?Named Gentile RulersThose Who DeceivedAngry PeopleKilling IsraelitesMassacresThe Death Of BabiesExamples Of Ungodly MenJesus BirthDeath Of A Child

But [when he] heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream, he took refuge in the regions of Galilee.

Verse ConceptsTetrarchWarning IndividualsNamed Gentile RulersKings Of All Israel Or Judah

And he came [and] lived in a town called Nazareth, in order that what was said by the prophets would be fulfilled: "He will be called a Nazarene."

Verse ConceptsGospel, Confirmation OfNazarethChrist's Fulfilment Of ProphecyBranches, Illustrating MessiahScriptures Fulfilled

And do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham [as] father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Verse ConceptsDelusionsPeople Of God, In NtHeredityAbility, God's PowerHypocrites, Description OfSelf DelusionWorry And StressRaising ChildrenBuilding Relationships

Now [when he] heard that John {had been arrested}, he withdrew into Galilee.

Verse ConceptsMonotonyPrisonersTelling Of Happeningsjail

"You have heard that it was said to the {people of old}, 'Do not commit murder,' and 'whoever commits murder will be subject to judgment.'

Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsMurderChrist's Knowledge Of The ScripturesGod Speaking Of OldDo Not Murder

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