1The word of the Lord, which came vnto Zephaniah ye sonne of Cushi, the sonne of Gedaliah, the sonne of Amariah, the sonne of Hizkiah, in the dayes of Iosiah, the sonne of Amon King of Iudah.

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Jeremiah 1:2, Jeremiah 1:2, 2 Chronicles 34:1, 2 Chronicles 34:33, 2 Chronicles 34:1

2I will surely destroy all things from off the land, saith the Lord.

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2 Kings 22:16, 2 Kings 22:17, 2 Kings 22:16, 2 Kings 22:17, Micah 7:13

3I will destroy man and beast: I wil destroy the foules of the heauen, and the fishes of the sea, and ruines shalbe to the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.

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Hosea 4:3, Hosea 4:3, Ezekiel 7:19, Ezekiel 7:19, Jeremiah 12:4

4I will also stretch out mine hand vpon Iudah, and vpon all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and I wil cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with ye Priestes,

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Hosea 10:5, Hosea 10:5, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Kings 23:5, Micah 5:13

5And them that worship the hoste of heauen vpon the house tops, and them that worship and sweare by the Lord, and sweare by Malcham,

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Jeremiah 19:13, 2 Kings 17:33, 1 Kings 11:33, Jeremiah 19:13, 2 Kings 17:33

6And them that are turned backe from the Lord, and those that haue not sought the Lord, nor inquired for him.

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Jeremiah 2:13, Isaiah 1:4, Jeremiah 2:13, Isaiah 1:4, Jeremiah 15:6

7Be stil at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, and hath sanctified his ghests.

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Habakkuk 2:20, Habakkuk 2:20, Zechariah 2:13, Zechariah 2:13, Zephaniah 1:14

8And it shalbe in the day of the Lords sacrifice, that I will visite the princes and the Kings children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparell.

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Isaiah 24:21, Isaiah 24:21, Isaiah 3:18, Isaiah 3:24, Jeremiah 22:11

9In the same day also will I visite all those that dance vpon the threshold so proudly, which fill their masters houses by crueltie and deceite.

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1 Samuel 5:5, 1 Samuel 5:5, Amos 3:10, Amos 3:10, Nehemiah 5:15

10And in that day, saith the Lord, there shall be a noise, and cry from the fishgate, and an howling from the second gate, and a great destruction from the hilles.

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2 Chronicles 33:14, 2 Chronicles 33:14, Amos 8:3, 2 Kings 22:14, Amos 8:3

11Howle ye inhabitants of the lowe place: for the companie of the marchants is destroyed: all they that beare siluer, are cut off.

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James 5:1, James 5:1, Ezekiel 21:12, Jeremiah 25:34, Hosea 12:7

12And at that time will I searche Ierusalem with lightes, and visite the men that are frosen in their dregges, and say in their heartes, The Lord will neither doe good nor doe euill.

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Amos 6:1, Amos 6:1, Jeremiah 48:11, Jeremiah 48:11, Ezekiel 8:12

13Therefore their goods shall be spoyled, and their houses waste: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.

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Amos 5:11, Amos 5:11, Micah 6:15, Micah 6:15, Deuteronomy 28:30

14The great day of the Lord is neere: it is neere, and hasteth greatly, euen the voyce of the day of the Lord: the strong man shall cry there bitterly.

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Malachi 4:5, Ezekiel 30:3, Malachi 4:5, Ezekiel 30:3, Zephaniah 1:7

15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heauinesse, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of obscuritie and darkenesse, a day of cloudes and blackenesse,

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Joel 2:2, Joel 2:2, Isaiah 22:5, Isaiah 22:5, Revelation 6:17

16A day of the trumpet and alarme against the strong cities, and against the hie towres.

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Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 2:15, Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 2:15, Jeremiah 4:19

17And I will bring distresse vpon men, that they shall walke like blind men, because they haue sinned against the Lord, and their blood shall be powred out as dust, and their flesh as the dongue.

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Micah 7:13, Micah 7:13, Psalms 83:10, Revelation 3:17, Psalms 83:10

18Neither their siluer nor their golde shalbe able to deliuer them in ye day of the Lords wrath, but the whole lande shalbe deuoured by the fire of his ielousie: for hee shall make euen a speedie riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

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Zephaniah 3:8, Zephaniah 3:8, Ezekiel 7:19, Ezekiel 7:19, Zephaniah 1:2