Zephaniah 3:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without people, without inhabitants.
⁷ I said, ‘Surely the city^[a] will fear me,
    it will accept correction;
it will not lose sight^[b]
    of all that I have brought upon it.’
But they were the more eager
    to make all their deeds corrupt.