Zephaniah 1:7
Be 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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1 Samuel 16:5And he answeared, Yea: I am come to doe sacrifice vnto the Lord: sanctifie your selues, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Ishai and his sonnes, and called them to the sacrifice.
Job 40:4Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?
Psalms 76:8Thou didest cause thy iudgement to bee heard from heauen: therefore the earth feared and was still,
Isaiah 2:12For the day of the Lord of hostes is vpon all the proude and hautie, and vpon all that is exalted: and it shalbe made lowe.
Isaiah 13:6Howle you, for the day of the Lord is at hande: it shall come as a destroier from the Almightie.
Isaiah 34:5For my sword shalbe drunken in the heauen: beholde, it shall come downe vpon Edom, euen vpon the people of my curse to iudgement.
Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 1:2-7
Zephaniah This prophet is placed last, as he was last in time, of all the minor prophets before the captivity, and not long before Jeremiah, who lived at the time of the captivity. He foretels the general destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and sets their sins in order before them, which had provoked God to bring their ruin upon them, calls them to repentance, threatens the neighbouring nations with the like destructions, and gives encouraging promises of their joyful return out of captivity in… Read the whole commentary →