Habakkuk 3 - Zephaniah 2

Christian Standard Bible

³ God comes from Teman,
the Holy One from Mount Paran.^(D)Selah
His splendor covers the heavens,
and the earth is full of his praise.^(E)
4 His brilliance is like light;
rays are flashing from his hand.
This is where his power is hidden.
⁵ Plague goes before him,
and pestilence follows in his steps.
⁶ He stands and shakes^[b] the earth;^(F)
he looks and startles the nations.
The age-old mountains break apart;
the ancient hills sink down.^(G)
His pathways are ancient.^(H)
7 I see the tents of Cushan^[c] in distress;
the tent curtains of the land of Midian tremble.
⁸ Are you angry at the rivers, Lord?
Is your wrath against the rivers?
Or is your fury against the sea
when you ride on your horses,
your victorious chariot?^(I)
9 You took the sheath from your bow;
the arrows are ready^[d] to be used with an oath.^[e](J)Selah
You split the earth with rivers.
¹⁰ The mountains see you and shudder;^(K)
a downpour of water sweeps by.
The deep roars with its voice^(L)
and lifts its waves^[f] high.
¹¹ Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence,^(M)
at the flash of your flying arrows,
at the brightness of your shining spear.
¹² You march across the earth with indignation;
you trample down the nations in wrath.^(N)
13 You come out to save your people,^(O)
to save your anointed.^[g]
You crush the leader of the house of the wicked
and strip him from foot^[h] to neck.Selah
¹⁴ You pierce his head
with his own spears;
his warriors storm out to scatter us,
gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.
¹⁵ You tread the sea with your horses,
stirring up the vast water.^(P)

⁴ I will stretch out my hand^(AC) against Judah
and against all the residents of Jerusalem.
I will cut off every vestige of Baal^(AD)
from this place,
the names of the pagan priests^(AE)
along with the priests;
⁵ those who bow in worship on the rooftops^(AF)
to the stars in the sky;
those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord^(AG)
but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;^[k](AH)
6 and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.
⁷ Be silent in the presence of the Lord God,^(AI)
for the day of the Lord is near.^(AJ)
Indeed, the Lord has prepared a sacrifice;^(AK)
he has consecrated his guests.^(AL)

⁸ On the day of the Lord’s sacrifice
I will punish the officials, the king’s sons,
and all who are dressed in foreign clothing.
⁹ On that day^(AM) I will punish
all who skip over the threshold,^[l](AN)
who fill their master’s house
with violence and deceit.

¹⁰ On that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate,^(AO)
a wailing from the Second District,^(AP)
and a loud crashing from the hills.
¹¹ Wail, you residents of the Hollow,^[m]
for all the merchants^[n] will be silenced;
all those loaded with silver will be cut off.

¹² And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps
and punish those who settle down comfortably,^[o](AQ)
who say to themselves:
The Lord will do nothing—good or bad.^(AR)
13 Their wealth will become plunder
and their houses a ruin.
They will build houses but never live in them,
plant vineyards but never drink their wine.^(AS)

¹⁴ The great day of the Lord is near,^(AT)
near and rapidly approaching.
Listen, the day of the Lord—
then the warrior’s cry is bitter.
¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath,
a day of trouble and distress,
a day of destruction and desolation,
a day of darkness^(AU) and gloom,
a day of clouds and total darkness,^(AV)
16 a day of ram’s horn and battle cry
against the fortified cities,
and against the high corner towers.
¹⁷ I will bring distress on mankind,
and they will walk like the blind^(AW)
because they have sinned against the Lord.
Their blood will be poured out like dust
and their flesh like dung.
¹⁸ Their silver and their gold
will be unable to rescue them
on the day of the Lord’s wrath.^(AX)
The whole earth will be consumed
by the fire of his jealousy,^(AY)
for he will make a complete,
yes, a horrifying end
of all the inhabitants of the earth.

⁸ I have heard the taunting^(BK) of Moab
and the insults of the Ammonites,^(BL)
who have taunted my people
and threatened their territory.
⁹ Therefore, as I live—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel—
Moab will be like Sodom^(BM)
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah:^(BN)
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of my people will plunder them;
the remainder of my nation will dispossess them.
¹⁰ This is what they get for their pride,
because they have taunted and acted arrogantly^(BO)
against the people of the Lord of Armies.
¹¹ The Lord will be terrifying to them
when he starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coasts and islands of the nations
will bow in worship to him,
each in its own place.

¹² You Cushites will also be slain by my sword.^(BP)

¹³ He will also stretch out his hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,^(BQ)
dry as the desert.
¹⁴ Herds will lie down in the middle of it,
every kind of wild animal.^[r]
Both eagle owls^[s] and herons^[t]
will roost in the capitals of its pillars.
Their calls will sound^[u] from the window,
but devastation^[v] will be on the threshold,
for he will expose the cedar work.^[w]
15 This is the jubilant^(BR) city
that lives in security,
that says to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
scoffs^[x] and shakes his fist.