11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth
    and has (A)settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
    nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
    and his scent is not changed.

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12 At that time (A)I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
    and I will punish the men
(B)who are complacent,[a]
    (C)those who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good,
    nor will he do ill.’

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:12 Hebrew are thickening on the dregs [of their wine]

15 (A)And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are (B)at ease; (C)for while I was angry but a little, (D)they furthered the disaster.

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For (A)the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob
    as the majesty of Israel,
for plunderers have plundered them
    and (B)ruined their branches.

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29 (A)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
    he is very proud—
of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,
    and the haughtiness of his heart.

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49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, (A)excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and (B)did an abomination before me. So (C)I removed them, when I saw it.

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(A)The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered;
    (B)for the Lord has spoken this word.

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(A)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
    how proud he is!—
(B)of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;
    in his idle boasting he is not right.

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Our soul has had more than enough
    of (A)the scorn of (B)those who are at ease,
    of the contempt of (C)the proud.

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19 God will give ear and humble them,
    he who is (A)enthroned from of old, Selah
because they do not (B)change
    and do not fear God.

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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon (A)has devoured me;
    he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
    (B)he has swallowed me like (C)a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
    he has rinsed me out.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:34 Or he has expelled me

(A)On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
    a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
    (B)of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

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32 For the simple are killed by (A)their turning away,
    and (B)the complacency of fools destroys them;

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For they have no pangs until death;
    their bodies are fat and sleek.
They are not in trouble as others are;
    they are not (A)stricken like the rest of mankind.
Therefore pride is (B)their necklace;
    violence covers them as (C)a garment.
Their (D)eyes swell out through fatness;
    their hearts overflow with follies.
They scoff and (E)speak with malice;
    loftily they threaten oppression.

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10 (A)Desolate! Desolation and ruin!
    (B)Hearts melt and (C)knees tremble;
(D)anguish is in all loins;
    (E)all faces grow pale!

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