Surah Zephaniah: Selected Verses

1. When I heard, my belly trembled ... rottenness entered into my bones.   0:0
2. I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.   1:2
3. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea.   1:3
4. The day of the LORD is at hand.   1:7
5. I will punish ... all such as are clothed with strange apparel.   1:8
6. In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold.   1:9
7. I will search Jerusalem with candles.   1:12
8. The great day of the LORD is near.   1:14
9. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess.   1:15
10. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, ... and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.   1:17
11. The whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy.   1:18
12. It may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.   2:3
13. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast ... I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.   2:5
14. The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth.   2:11
15. Every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.   2:15
16. All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.   3:8