(A)How long, O Lord? Will you be angry (B)forever?
    Will your (C)jealousy (D)burn like fire?

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How long,(A) Lord? Will you be angry(B) forever?
    How long will your jealousy burn like fire?(C)

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11 O Lord, (A)your hand is lifted up,
    but (B)they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
    Let (C)the fire for your adversaries consume them.

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11 Lord, your hand is lifted high,(A)
    but they do not see(B) it.
Let them see your zeal(C) for your people and be put to shame;(D)
    let the fire(E) reserved for your enemies consume them.

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18 (A)Neither their silver nor their gold
    shall be able to deliver them
    on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
(B)In the fire of his jealousy,
    (C)all the earth shall be consumed;
(D)for a full and sudden end
    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

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18 Neither their silver nor their gold
    will be able to save them
    on the day of the Lord’s wrath.”(A)

In the fire of his jealousy(B)
    the whole earth will be consumed,(C)
for he will make a sudden end
    of all who live on the earth.(D)

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“Therefore (A)wait for me,” declares the Lord,
    “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.
For my decision is (B)to gather nations,
    to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation,
    all my burning anger;
for in the fire of my jealousy
    (C)all the earth shall be consumed.

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Therefore wait(A) for me,”
    declares the Lord,
    “for the day I will stand up to testify.[a]
I have decided to assemble(B) the nations,(C)
    to gather the kingdoms
and to pour out my wrath(D) on them—
    all my fierce anger.(E)
The whole world will be consumed(F)
    by the fire of my jealous anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 3:8 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew will rise up to plunder

therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in (A)my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and (B)against all Edom, who (C)gave my land to themselves as a possession (D)with wholehearted joy and (E)utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.

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this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my burning(A) zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’(B)

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“Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.

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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I am very jealous(A) for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.”

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(A)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those (B)who do not know God and on those who (C)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

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He will punish(A) those who do not know God(B) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(C)

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