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Zephaniah 1

Zeph. 1:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Neitherb their silver
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
nor their gold
zahab (Hebrew #2091)
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
KJV usage: gold(-en), fair weather.
Pronounce: zaw-hawb'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to shimmer
shall be able
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
to deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
them in the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of the Lord’s
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
wrath
`ebrah (Hebrew #5678)
an outburst of passion
KJV usage: anger, rage, wrath.
Pronounce: eb-raw'
Origin: feminine of 5676
; but the whole land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
shall be devoured
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
c by the fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
of his jealousy
qin'ah (Hebrew #7068)
jealousy or envy
KJV usage: envy(-ied), jealousy, X sake, zeal.
Pronounce: kin-aw'
Origin: from 7065
: for he shall make
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
even a speedy
bahal (Hebrew #926)
to tremble inwardly (or palpitate), i.e. (figuratively) be (causative, make) (suddenly) alarmed or agitated; by implication to hasten anxiously
KJV usage: be (make) affrighted (afraid, amazed, dismayed, rash), (be, get, make) haste(-n, -y, -ily), (give) speedy(-ily), thrust out, trouble, vex.
Pronounce: baw-hal'
Origin: a primitive root
riddance
kalah (Hebrew #3617)
a completion; adverb, completely; also destruction
KJV usage: altogether, (be, utterly) consume(-d), consummation(-ption), was determined, (full, utter) end, riddance.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: from 3615
of all them that dwell
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
in the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Prov. 11:4• 4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath;{HR}But righteousness delivereth from death. (Prov. 11:4)
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Ezek. 7:19• 19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as uncleanness. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; they shall not satisfy their souls nor fill their bowels, because it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. (Ezek. 7:19)
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Zeph. 3:8• 8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. (Zeph. 3:8)

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Day of the Lord,
Fire,
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Jealousy,
Silver,
Wrath

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Ministry on This Verse

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their silver.
Zeph. 1:11• 11Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. (Zeph. 1:11)
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Psa. 49:6‑9• 6Those who trust in their wealth{HR}And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.
 7In no wise can a man redeem a brother,{HR}He giveth not to God a ransom for him
 8(But the redemption-price of their soul [is] precious,{HR}And it hath ceased forever),
 9That he should still live forever{HR}And not see corruption. (Psa. 49:6‑9)
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Psa. 52:5‑7• 5God shall likewise destroy thee forever;{HR}He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of tent,{HR}And root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
 6The righteous also shall see and fear,{HR}And laugh at him.
 7Behold, the man that made not God his strength,{HR}But confided in the abundance of his riches;{HR}He strengthened himself in his wickedness. (Psa. 52:5‑7)
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Prov. 11:4• 4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath;{HR}But righteousness delivereth from death. (Prov. 11:4)
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Prov. 18:11• 11The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city,{HR}And as a high wall in his own imagination. (Prov. 18:11)
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Isa. 2:20‑21• 20In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
 21to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth. (Isa. 2:20‑21)
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Jer. 9:23‑24• 23{i}Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches:{/i}
 24{i}but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah{/i}. (Jer. 9:23‑24)
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Ezek. 7:19• 19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as uncleanness. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; they shall not satisfy their souls nor fill their bowels, because it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. (Ezek. 7:19)
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Matt. 16:26• 26{i}For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?{/i} (Matt. 16:26)
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Luke 12:19‑21• 19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid up for many years; repose thyself; eat, drink, be merry.
 20But God said unto him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
 21Thus is he who layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:19‑21)
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Luke 16:22‑23• 22And it came to pass that the poor man died, and was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried.
 23And in Hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (Luke 16:22‑23)
in the day.
Zeph. 1:15• 15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, (Zeph. 1:15)
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Job 21:30• 30To a day of destruction the wicked is spared,{HR}To a day of great wrath they are led off. (Job 21:30)
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Zeph. 3:8• 8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. (Zeph. 3:8)
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Lev. 26:33‑35• 33And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.
 34Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths all the days of her desolation, when ye [are] in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest and enjoy her Sabbaths.
 35All the days of the desolation it shall rest; in which it rested not on your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. (Lev. 26:33‑35)
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Deut. 29:20‑28• 20{i}Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;{/i}
 21{i}and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.{/i}
 22{i}And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,{/i}
 23{i}that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:{/i}
 24{i}even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?{/i}
 25{i}And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;{/i}
 26{i}and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.{/i}
 27{i}And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;{/i}
 28{i}and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it appears this day.{/i} (Deut. 29:20‑28)
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Deut. 31:17• 17{i}And my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, and they will say in that day, Have not these evils befallen me because my God is not in my midst?{/i} (Deut. 31:17)
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Isa. 24:1‑12• 1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
 2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
 3The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
 4The earth mourneth, it fadeth away: the world languisheth, it fadeth away; the haughty people of the earth do languish,
 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, for they have transgressed the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
 6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do sigh.
 8The mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
 9They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
 10The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man entereth in.
 11[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
 12In the city remaineth desolation, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin. (Isa. 24:1‑12)
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Jer. 4:26‑29• 26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, and by his fierce anger.
 27{i}For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.{/i}
 28{i}For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom.{/i}
 29{i}At the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, every city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken and no man dwelleth therein.{/i} (Jer. 4:26‑29)
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Jer. 7:20,34• 20Therefore thus saith Jehovah God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
 34{i}And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.{/i} (Jer. 7:20,34)
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Jer. 9:11• 11{i}And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.{/i} (Jer. 9:11)
the fire.
Zeph. 3:8• 8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. (Zeph. 3:8)
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Deut. 32:21‑25• 21{i}They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God;{HR}They have exasperated me with their vanities;{HR}And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people;{HR}With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.{HR}{/i}
 22{i}For a fire is kindled in mine anger,{HR}And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol,{HR}And shall consume the earth and its produce,{HR}And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.{HR}{/i}
 23{i}I will heap mischiefs upon them;{HR}Mine arrows will I spend against them.{HR}{/i}
 24{i}They shall be consumed with hunger,{HR}And devoured with burning heat,{HR}And with poisonous pestilence;{HR}And the teeth of beasts will I send against them,{HR}With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.{HR}{/i}
 25{i}From without shall the sword bereave them,{HR}And in the chambers, terror{HR}—Both the young man and the virgin,{HR}The suckling with the man of gray hairs.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:21‑25)
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1 Kings 14:22• 22And Judah did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. (1 Kings 14:22)
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Psa. 78:58• 58And they provoked him to anger with their high places,{HR}And moved him to jealousy with their graven images. (Psa. 78:58)
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Psa. 79:5• 5How long, Jehovah? wilt thou be angry forever?{HR}Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? (Psa. 79:5)
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Ezek. 8:3‑5• 3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
 4And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
 5Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and, behold, northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. (Ezek. 8:3‑5)
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Ezek. 16:38• 38And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. (Ezek. 16:38)
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Ezek. 36:5‑6• 5{i}—therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the remnant of the nations, and against the whole of Edom, which have appointed my land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to plunder it by pillage.{/i}
 6Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: (Ezek. 36:5‑6)
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1 Cor. 10:22• 22What! do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? (1 Cor. 10:22)
he shall.
Zeph. 1:2‑3• 2I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith Jehovah:
 3I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith Jehovah. (Zeph. 1:2‑3)
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Isa. 1:24• 24Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. (Isa. 1:24)
• It is distinctly judicial, and this as regards the habitable world. (“Zephaniah 1” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full endf, yea, a sudden end, shall he make of all them that dwell in the land.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "consumption." see Isa. 10.22,23; Jer. 4.27, etc.; Ezek. 11.13; Nah. 1.8.

W. Kelly Translation

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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.