1 [Convenite, congregamini, gens non amabilis, 2 priusquam pariat jussio quasi pulverem transeuntem diem, antequam veniat super vos ira furoris Domini, antequam veniat super vos dies indignationis Domini. 3 Quærite Dominum, omnes mansueti terræ, qui judicium ejus estis operati; quærite justum, quærite mansuetum, si quomodo abscondamini in die furoris Domini. 4 Quia Gaza destructa erit, et Ascalon in desertum: Azotum in meridie ejicient, et Accaron eradicabitur. 5 Væ qui habitatis funiculum maris, gens perditorum ! verbum Domini super vos, Chanaan, terra Philisthinorum; et disperdam te, ita ut non sit inhabitator. 6 Et erit funiculus maris requies pastorum, et caulæ pecorum; 7 et erit funiculus ejus qui remanserit de domo Juda: ibi pascentur, in domibus Ascalonis ad vesperam requiescent, quia visitabit eos Dominus Deus eorum, et avertet captivitatem eorum. 8 Audivi opprobrium Moab, et blasphemias filiorum Ammon, quæ exprobraverunt populo meo, et magnificati sunt super terminos eorum. 9 Propterea vivo ego, dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël, quia Moab ut Sodoma erit, et filii Ammon quasi Gomorrha: siccitas spinarum, et acervi salis, et desertum usque in æternum: reliquiæ populi mei diripient eos, et residui gentis meæ possidebunt illos. 10 Hoc eis eveniet pro superbia sua, quia blasphemaverunt et magnificati sunt super populum Domini exercituum. 11 Horribilis Dominus super eos, et attenuabit omnes deos terræ: et adorabunt eum viri de loco suo, omnes insulæ gentium. 12 Sed et vos, Æthiopes, interfecti gladio meo eritis. 13 Et extendet manum suam super aquilonem, et perdet Assur, et ponet speciosam in solitudinem, et in invium, et quasi desertum. 14 Et accubabunt in medio ejus greges, omnes bestiæ gentium; et onocrotalus et ericius in liminibus ejus morabuntur: vox cantantis in fenestra, corvus in superliminari, quoniam attenuabo robur ejus. 15 Hæc est civitas gloriosa habitans in confidentia, quæ dicebat in corde suo: Ego sum, et extra me non est alia amplius: quomodo facta est in desertum cubile bestiæ? omnis qui transit per eam sibilabit, et movebit manum suam.]
Zephaniah · Clementine Vulgate
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Cross references (15)
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- 1 Joel 1:14; 2 Chronicles 20:4; Nehemiah 9:1; Nehemiah 8:1; Esther 4:16
- 2 Nahum 1:6; Lamentations 4:11; Hosea 13:3; Psalm 1:4; Isaiah 17:13
- 3 Amos 5:14–15; Isaiah 26:20–21; Psalm 76:9; Jeremiah 29:12–13; Psalm 22:26
- 4 Zechariah 9:5–7; Amos 1:6–8; Jeremiah 47:1–7; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 6:4
- 5 Ezekiel 25:16; Jeremiah 47:7; Joshua 13:3; Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1
- 6 Isaiah 5:17; Isaiah 17:2; Zephaniah 2:14–15; Ezekiel 25:5
- 7 Exodus 4:31; Zephaniah 3:20; Micah 5:3–8; Luke 1:68; Ezekiel 39:25
- 8 Psalm 83:4–7; Ezekiel 25:3–11; Amos 1:13; Jeremiah 48:27–29; Jeremiah 49:1
- 9 Isaiah 15:1–9; Isaiah 11:14; Deuteronomy 29:23; Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 49:18
- 10 Isaiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:29; Zephaniah 2:8; Exodus 9:17; Daniel 4:37
- 11 Micah 4:1–3; Zechariah 14:9–21; Zechariah 13:2; Zechariah 2:11; Isaiah 2:2–4
- 12 Ezekiel 30:4–9; Isaiah 18:1–7; Jeremiah 51:20–23; Jeremiah 46:9–10; Isaiah 13:5
- 13 Nahum 3:7; Nahum 3:18–19; Nahum 1:1; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:16
- 14 Amos 9:1; Isaiah 34:11–17; Jeremiah 22:14; Isaiah 13:19–22; Revelation 18:2
- 15 Ezekiel 28:2; Isaiah 47:7–8; Nahum 3:19; Ezekiel 28:9; Isaiah 22:2
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… assemble the nations, and gather together the kingdoms." And again he says, "The Lord will be terrible upon them, and will exterminate all the gods of the earth; and they shall worship Him every man from his place, even all the isles of the nations." And a little after he says, "Then will I turn to the people a tongue, …
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