(A)Be silent in the presence of the Lord God;
(B)For the day of the Lord is at hand,
For (C)the Lord has prepared a sacrifice;
He has [a]invited His guests.

“And it shall be,
In the day of the Lord’s sacrifice,
That I will punish (D)the princes and the king’s children,
And all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
In the same day I will punish
All those who (E)leap over the threshold,
Who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

10 “And there shall be on that day,” says the Lord,
“The sound of a mournful cry from (F)the Fish Gate,
A wailing from the Second Quarter,
And a loud crashing from the hills.
11 (G)Wail, you inhabitants of [b]Maktesh!
For all the merchant people are cut down;
All those who handle money are cut off.

12 “And it shall come to pass at that time
That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And punish the men
Who are (H)settled[c] in complacency,
(I)Who say in their heart,
‘The Lord will not do good,
Nor will He do evil.’
13 Therefore their goods shall become booty,
And their houses a desolation;
They shall build houses, but not inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards, but (J)not drink their wine.”

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Notas al pie

  1. Zephaniah 1:7 Lit. set apart, consecrated
  2. Zephaniah 1:11 A market district of Jerusalem, lit. Mortar
  3. Zephaniah 1:12 Lit. on their lees; like the dregs of wine

Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God:
for the day of the Lord is at hand:
for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice,
he hath bid his guests.

And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice,
that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children,
and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold,
which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord,
that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate,
and an howling from the second,
and a great crashing from the hills.
11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh,
for all the merchant people are cut down;
all they that bear silver are cut off.
12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles,
and punish the men that are settled on their lees:
that say in their heart,
The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.
13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty,
and their houses a desolation:
they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

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