and say to her: ‘This is what the Lord says: I am against you.(A) I will draw my sword(B) from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.(C)

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22 It is all the same; that is why I say,
    ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’(A)

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13 I am against(A) you, Jerusalem,
    you who live above this valley(B)
    on the rocky plateau, declares the Lord
you who say, “Who can come against us?
    Who can enter our refuge?”(C)

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“I am against(A) you,” declares the Lord Almighty.
    “I will lift your skirts(B) over your face.
I will show the nations your nakedness(C)
    and the kingdoms your shame.

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13 “I am against(A) you,”
    declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will burn up your chariots in smoke,(B)
    and the sword(C) will devour your young lions.
    I will leave you no prey on the earth.
The voices of your messengers
    will no longer be heard.”(D)

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“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations.(A)

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The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered

“Awake, sword,(A) against my shepherd,(B)
    against the man who is close to me!”
    declares the Lord Almighty.
“Strike the shepherd,
    and the sheep will be scattered,(C)
    and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

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Cush

12 “You Cushites,[a](A) too,
    will be slain by my sword.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:12 That is, people from the upper Nile region

therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea(A) casting up its waves.

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19 “Son of man, mark out two roads for the sword(A) of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same country. Make a signpost(B) where the road branches off to the city.

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“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘A sword, a sword,
    sharpened and polished—
10 sharpened for the slaughter,(A)
    polished to flash like lightning!

“‘Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son? The sword despises every such stick.(B)

11 “‘The sword is appointed to be polished,(C)
    to be grasped with the hand;
it is sharpened and polished,
    made ready for the hand of the slayer.

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21 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments(A)—sword(B) and famine(C) and wild beasts and plague(D)—to kill its men and their animals!(E)

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17 “Or if I bring a sword(A) against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,(B)

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As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity(A) or compassion.(B) Slaughter(C) the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children,(D) but do not touch anyone who has the mark.(E) Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men(F) who were in front of the temple.(G)

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12 A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds(A) and pursue with drawn sword.(B)

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25 “I am against(A) you, you destroying mountain,
    you who destroy the whole earth,”(B)
declares the Lord.
“I will stretch out my hand(C) against you,
    roll you off the cliffs,
    and make you a burned-out mountain.(D)

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20 “You are my war club,(A)
    my weapon for battle—
with you I shatter(B) nations,(C)
    with you I destroy kingdoms,

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31 “See, I am against(A) you, you arrogant one,”
    declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
“for your day(B) has come,
    the time for you to be punished.

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“‘Alas, sword(A) of the Lord,
    how long till you rest?
Return to your sheath;
    cease and be still.’(B)
But how can it rest
    when the Lord has commanded it,
when he has ordered it
    to attack Ashkelon and the coast?”(C)

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And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘Those destined for death, to death;
those for the sword, to the sword;(A)
those for starvation, to starvation;(B)
those for captivity, to captivity.’(C)

“I will send four kinds of destroyers(D) against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword(E) to kill and the dogs(F) to drag away and the birds(G) and the wild animals to devour and destroy.(H) I will make them abhorrent(I) to all the kingdoms of the earth(J) because of what Manasseh(K) son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

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My sword(A) has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    see, it descends in judgment on Edom,(B)
    the people I have totally destroyed.(C)

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All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

As it is with the good,
    so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
    so with those who are afraid to take them.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the bad.

13 Rise up,(A) Lord, confront them, bring them down;(B)
    with your sword rescue me from the wicked.

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41 when I sharpen my flashing sword(A)
    and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance(B) on my adversaries
    and repay those who hate me.(C)
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,(D)
    while my sword devours flesh:(E)
the blood of the slain and the captives,
    the heads of the enemy leaders.”

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