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2 I will astand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.
2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
b“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
3 For cthe vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will dnot lie.
Though it tarries, ewait for it;
Because it will fsurely come,
It will not tarry.
His soul is not upright in him;
But the gjust shall live by his faith.
5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man,
And he does not stay at home.
Because he henlarges his desire as 1hell,
And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
He gathers to himself all nations
And heaps up for himself all peoples.
6 “Will not all these itake up a proverb against him,
And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
‘Woe to him who increases
What is not his—how long?
And to him who loads himself with 2many pledges’?
7 Will not 3your creditors rise up suddenly?
Will they not awaken who oppress you?
And you will become their booty.
8 jBecause you have plundered many nations,
All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,
Because of men’s 4blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.
9 “Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house,
That he may kset his nest on high,
That he may be delivered from the 5power of disaster!
10 You give shameful counsel to your house,
Cutting off many peoples,
And sin against your soul.
11 For the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the beam from the timbers will answer it.
12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
Who establishes a city by iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts
That the peoples labor 6to feed the fire,
And nations weary themselves in vain?
14 For the earth will be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.
15 “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor,
7Pressing him to your lbottle,
Even to make him drunk,
That you may look on 8his nakedness!
16 You are filled with shame instead of glory.
You also—drink!
And 9be exposed as uncircumcised!
The cup of the Lord’s right hand will be turned against you,
And utter shame will be on your glory.
17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you,
And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid,
Because of men’s blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.
18 “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
The molded image, a teacher of lies,
That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
To make mute idols?
19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’
To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
Yet in it there is no breath at all.
20 “But mthe Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
3 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, on 1Shigionoth.
2 O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.
The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His glory covered the heavens,
And the earth was full of His praise.
4 His brightness was like the light;
He had rays flashing from His hand,
And there His power was hidden.
And fever followed at His feet.
6 He stood and measured the earth;
He looked and startled the nations.
aAnd the everlasting mountains were scattered,
The perpetual hills bowed.
His ways are everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
The curtains of the land of Midian trembled.
8 O Lord, were You displeased with the rivers,
Was Your anger against the rivers,
Was Your wrath against the sea,
That You rode on Your horses,
Your chariots of salvation?
9 Your bow was made quite ready;
Oaths were sworn over Your 2arrows. Selah
You divided the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw You and trembled;
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And blifted its hands on high.
11 The csun and moon stood still in their habitation;
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
12 You marched through the land in indignation;
You 3trampled the nations in anger.
13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah
14 You thrust through with his own arrows
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
15 dYou walked through the sea with Your horses,
Through the heap of great waters.
16 When I heard, emy body trembled;
My lips quivered at the voice;
Rottenness entered my bones;
And I trembled in myself,
That I might rest in the day of trouble.
When he comes up to the people,
He will invade them with his troops.
17 Though the fig tree may not blossom,
Nor fruit be on the vines;
Though the labor of the olive may fail,
And the fields yield no food;
Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,
And there be no herd in the stalls—
18 Yet I will frejoice in the Lord,
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
19 4The Lord God is my strength;
He will make my feet like gdeer’s feet,
And He will make me hwalk on my high hills.
To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments.
1 The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of aJosiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
2 “I will 1utterly consume everything
From the face of the land,”
Says the Lord;
3 “I bwill consume man and beast;
I will consume the birds of the heavens,
The fish of the sea,
And the 2stumbling blocks along with the wicked.
I will cut off man from the face of the 3land,”
Says the Lord.
4 “I will stretch out My hand against Judah,
And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
4I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place,
The names of the cidolatrous 5priests with the pagan priests—
5 Those dwho worship the host of heaven on the housetops;
Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord,
But who also swear eby 6Milcom;
6 fThose who have turned back from following the Lord,
And ghave not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.”
7 hBe silent in the presence of the Lord God;
iFor the day of the Lord is at hand,
For jthe Lord has prepared a sacrifice;
He has 7invited His guests.
In the day of the Lord’s sacrifice,
That I will punish kthe princes and the king’s children,
And all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
9 In the same day I will punish
All those who lleap over the threshold,
Who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
10 “And there shall be on that day,” says the Lord,
“The sound of a mournful cry from mthe Fish Gate,
A wailing from the Second Quarter,
And a loud crashing from the hills.
11 nWail, you inhabitants of 8Maktesh!
For all the merchant people are cut down;
All those who handle money are cut off.
12 “And it shall come to pass at that time
That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And punish the men
Who are osettled 9in complacency,
pWho say in their heart,
‘The Lord will not do good,
Nor will He do evil.’
13 Therefore their goods shall become booty,
And their houses a desolation;
They shall build houses, but not inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards, but qnot drink their wine.”
14 rThe great day of the Lord is near;
It is near and hastens quickly.
The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter;
There the mighty men shall cry out.
15 sThat day is a day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
16 A day of ttrumpet and alarm
Against the fortified cities
And against the high towers.
17 “I will bring distress upon men,
And they shall uwalk like blind men,
Because they have sinned against the Lord;
Their blood shall be poured out like dust,
And their flesh like refuse.”
18 vNeither their silver nor their gold
Shall be able to deliver them
In the day of the Lord’s wrath;
But the whole land shall be devoured
By the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make speedy riddance
Of all those who dwell in the land.
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