{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8341/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8341","id":"gutenberg_8341","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8341","summary":null,"tags":["Bible. Zephaniah","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF SOPHONIAS\n\nSOPHONIAS, whose name, saith St. Jerome, signifies The Watchman of the\nLord, or The hidden of the Lord, prophesied in the beginning of the\nreign of Josias. He was a native of Sarabatha, and of the tribe of\nSimeon, according to the more general opinion. He prophesied the\npunishments of the Jews, for their idolatry and other crimes; also the\npunishments that were to come on divers nations; the coming of Christ,\nthe conversion of the Gentiles, the blindness of the Jews, and their\nconversion towards the end of the world.\n\n\nSophonias Chapter 1\n\nFor divers enormous sins, the kingdom of Juda is threatened with severe\njudgment.\n\n1:1. The word of the Lord that came to Sophonias the son of Chusi, the\nson of Godolias, the son of Amarias, the son of Ezechias, in the days of\nJosias, the son of Amon king of Juda.\n\n1:2. Gathering, I will gather together all things from off the face of\nthe land, saith the Lord:\n\nGathering, I will gather, etc... That is, I will assuredly take away,\nand wholly consume, either by captivity, or death, both men and beasts\nout of this land.\n\n1:3. I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air,\nand the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I\nwill destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord.\n\n1:4. And I will stretch out my hand upon Juda, and upon all the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem: and I will destroy out of this place the\nremnant of Baal, and the names of the wardens of the temples with the\npriests:\n\nThe wardens, etc... Viz., of the temples of the idols. AEdituos, in\nHebrew, the Chemarims, that is, such as kindle the fires, or burn\nincense.\n\n1:5. And them that worship the host of heaven upon the tops of houses,\nand them that adore, and swear by the Lord, and swear by Melchom.\n\nMelchom... The idol of the Ammonites.\n\n1:6. And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that\nhave not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.\n\n1:7. Be silent before the face of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord\nis near, for the Lord hath prepared a victim, he hath sanctified his\nguests.\n\n1:8. And it shall come to pass in the day of the victim of the Lord,\nthat I will visit upon the princes, and upon the king's sons, and upon\nall such as are clothed with strange apparel:\n\n1:9. And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth\narrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord\ntheir God with iniquity and deceit.\n\n1:10. And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the noise of a cry\nfrom the fish gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great\ndestruction from the hills.\n\nThe Second... A part of the city so called.\n\n1:11. Howl, ye inhabitants of the Morter. All the people of Chanaan is\nhush, all are cut off that were wrapped up in silver.\n\nThe Morter... Maktesh. A valley in or near Jerusalem. Ibid. The people\nof Chanaan... So he calls the Jews, from their following the wicked ways\nof the Chanaanites.\n\n1:12. And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search\nJerusalem with lamps, and will visit upon the men that are settled on\ntheir lees: that say in their hearts: The Lord will not do good, nor\nwill he do evil.\n\nSettled on their lees... That is, the wealthy, and such as live at their\nease, resting upon their riches, like wine upon the lees.\n\n1:13. And their strength shall become a booty, and their houses as a\ndesert: and they shall build houses, and shall not dwell in them: and\nthey shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.\n\n1:14. The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and exceeding swift:\nthe voice of the day of the Lord is bitter, the mighty man shall there\nmeet with tribulation.\n\n1:15. That day is a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distress, a\nday of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of\nclouds and whirlwinds,\n\n1:16. A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and\nagainst the high bulwarks.\n\n1:17. And I will distress men, and they shall walk like blind men,\nbecause they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be\npoured out as earth, and their bodies as dung.\n\n1:18. Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them\nin the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by\nthe fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of\nall them that dwell in the land.\n\nSophonias Chapter 2\n\nAn exhortation to repentance. The judgment of the Philistines, of the\nMoabites, and the Ammonites; of the Ethiopians and the Assyrians.\n\n2:1. Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not\nworthy to be loved:\n\n2:2. Before the decree bring forth the day as dust passing away, before\nthe fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord's\nindignation come upon you.\n\n2:3. Seek the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, you that have wrought his\njudgment: seek the just, seek the meek: if by any means you may be hid\nin the day of the Lord's indignation.\n\n2:4. For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ascalon shall be a desert, they\nshall cast out Azotus at noonday, and Accaron shall be rooted up.\n\n2:5. Woe to you that inhabit the sea coast, O nation of reprobates: the\nword of the Lord upon you, O Chanaan, the land of the Philistines, and I\nwill destroy thee, so that there shall not be an inhabitant.\n\n2:6. And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and\nfolds for cattle:\n\n2:7. And it shall be the portion of him that shall remain of the house\nof Juda, there they shall feed: in the houses of Ascalon they shall rest\nin the evening: because the Lord their God will visit them, and bring\nback their captivity.\n\n2:8. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the blasphemies of the\nchildren of Ammon, with which they reproached my people, and have\nmagnified themselves upon their borders.\n\n2:9. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel,\nMoab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the\ndryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the\nremnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my\nnation shall possess them.\n\n2:10. This shall befall them for their pride: because they have\nblasphemed, and have been magnified against the people of the Lord of\nhosts.\n\n2:11. The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the\ngods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own\nplace, all the islands of the Gentiles.\n\n2:12. You Ethiopians, also shall be slain with my sword.\n\n2:13. And he will stretch out his hand upon the north, and will destroy\nAssyria: and he will make the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a\nplace not passable, and as a desert.\n\nThe beautiful city, viz... Ninive, which was destroyed soon after this,\nviz., in the sixteenth year of the reign of Josias.\n\n2:14. And flocks shall lie down in the midst thereof, all the beasts of\nthe nations: and the bittern and the urchin shall lodge in the threshold\nthereof: the voice of the singing bird in the window, the raven on the\nupper post, for I will consume her strength.\n\n2:15. This is the glorious city that dwelt in security: that said in her\nheart: I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desert, a\nplace for beasts to lie down in? every one that passeth by her shall\nhiss, and wag his hand.\n\nSophonias Chapter 3\n\nA woe to Jerusalem for her sins. A prophecy of the conversion of the\nGentiles, and of the poor of Israel: God shall be with them.  The Jews\nshall be converted at last.\n\n3:1. Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove.\n\n3:2. She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received\ndiscipline: she hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew not near to her\nGod.\n\n3:3. Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges\nare evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.\n\n3:4. Her prophets are senseless, men without faith: her priests have\npolluted the sanctuary, they have acted unjustly against the law.\n\n3:5. The just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: in\nthe morning, in the morning he will bring his judgment to light, and it\nshall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known shame.\n\n3:6. I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I\nhave made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by:\ntheir cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any\ninhabitant.\n\n3:7. I said: Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction: and\nher dwelling shall not perish, for all things wherein I have visited\nher: but they rose early, and corrupted all their thoughts.\n\n3:8. Wherefore expect me, saith the Lord, in the day of my resurrection\nthat is to come, for my judgment is to assemble the Gentiles, and to\ngather the kingdoms: and to pour upon them my indignation, all my fierce\nanger: for with the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.\n\n\n3:9. Because then I will restore to the people a chosen lip, that all\nmay call upon the name of the Lord, and may serve him with one shoulder.\n\n\n3:10. From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, shall my suppliants, the\nchildren of my dispersed people, bring me an offering.\n\n3:11. In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein\nthou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the\nmidst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up\nbecause of my holy mountain.\n\n3:12. And I will leave in the midst of thee a poor and needy people: and\nthey shall hope in the name of the Lord.\n\n3:13. The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, nor\nshall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed,\nand shall lie down, and there shall be none to make them afraid.\n\n3:14. Give praise, O daughter of Sion: shout, O Israel: be glad, and\nrejoice with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.\n\n3:15. The Lord hath taken away thy judgment, he hath turned away thy\nenemies: the king of Israel, the Lord, is in the midst of thee, thou\nshalt fear evil no more.\n\n3:16. In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not: to Sion: Let\nnot thy hands be weakened.\n\n3:17. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty, he will save: he\nwill rejoice over thee with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he\nwill be joyful over thee in praise.\n\n3:18. The triflers that were departed from the law, I will gather\ntogether, because they were of thee: that thou mayest no more suffer\nreproach for them.\n\n3:19. Behold I will cut off all that have afflicted thee at that time:\nand I will save her that halteth, and will gather her that was cast out:\nand I will get them praise, and a name, in all the land where they had\nbeen put to confusion.\n\n3:20. At that time, when I will bring you: and at the time that I will\ngather you: for I will give you a name, and praise among all the people\nof the earth, when I shall have brought back your captivity before your\neyes, saith the Lord.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 41: Sophonias: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":2141}