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“I will surely destroy everything
    from the face of the earth”—a declaration of Yahweh.
“I will destroy humanity and beast;
    I will destroy the birds of the sky
    and the fish of the sea,
    and the stumbling blocks[a] with the wicked.
And I will cut off humankind
    from the face of the earth”—a declaration of Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:3 A reference to idols

Coming Judgment against Judah

“I will sweep away everything
    from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
“I will sweep away people and animals alike.
    I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea.
I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble,[a]
    and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.