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16 trumpet calls, and battle cries; down go the walled cities and strongest battlements!

17 “I will make you as helpless as a blind man searching for a path because you have sinned against the Lord; therefore, your blood will be poured out into the dust and your bodies will lie there rotting on the ground.”

18 Your silver and gold will be of no use to you in that day of the Lord’s wrath. You cannot ransom yourselves with it.[a] For the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. He will make a speedy riddance of all the people of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:18 You cannot ransom yourselves with it, implied.

16     a day of trumpet and battle cry(A)
against the fortified cities
    and against the corner towers.(B)

17 “I will bring such distress(C) on all people
    that they will grope about like those who are blind,(D)
    because they have sinned against the Lord.
Their blood will be poured out(E) like dust
    and their entrails like dung.(F)
18 Neither their silver nor their gold
    will be able to save them
    on the day of the Lord’s wrath.”(G)

In the fire of his jealousy(H)
    the whole earth will be consumed,(I)
for he will make a sudden end
    of all who live on the earth.(J)

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