11 Wail,(A) you who live in the market district[a];
    all your merchants will be wiped out,
    all who trade with[b] silver will be destroyed.(B)
12 At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps
    and punish those who are complacent,(C)
    who are like wine left on its dregs,(D)
who think, ‘The Lord will do nothing,(E)
    either good or bad.’(F)
13 Their wealth will be plundered,(G)
    their houses demolished.
Though they build houses,
    they will not live in them;
though they plant vineyards,
    they will not drink the wine.”(H)

14 The great day of the Lord(I) is near(J)
    near and coming quickly.
The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter;
    the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:11 Or the Mortar
  2. Zephaniah 1:11 Or in

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