1. The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
2. I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith the Lord.
3. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, saith the Lord.
4. And I will stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarim with the priests;
5. and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship, which swear to the Lord and swear by Malcam;
6. and them that are turned back from following the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor inquired after him.
7. Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath sanctified his guests.
8. And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
9. And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, which fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
10. And in that day, saith the Lord, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.