(A)I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;
    (B)you will accept correction.
Then your[a] dwelling would not be cut off
    according to all that I have appointed against you.’[b]
But (C)all the more they were eager
    to make all their deeds corrupt.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her
  2. Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her

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