Zephaniah 2:1 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Collect your thoughts, aye collect them,––O nation, depressed!

⁴ And Judah gathered themselves together, to enquire of Yahweh,––even, out of all the cities of Judah, came they in, to seek Yahweh.

¹ Then all the people gathered themselves together as one man, into the broadway that was before the water–gate,––and they spake unto Ezra the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded Israel.

¹ Now, on the twenty–fourth day of this month, were the sons of Israel gathered together, with fasting and with sackcloth, having earth upon them.

¹⁶ Go! gather ye together all the Jews who are to be found in Shusan, and fast ye for me––and neither eat nor drink––three days, night nor day, and, I and my maidens, will fast so,––and, in this manner, will I go in unto the king, though it is not according to the law, and, when I have perished, I have perished!

⁴ Alas! a nation––committing sin, a people––burdened with iniquity, a seed––practising wickedness, sons––acting corruptly. They have, forsaken Yahweh, despised the Holy One of Israel,––Are estranged and gone back. ⁵ Why should ye be smitten any more? Ye would again, turn aside! The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint: ⁶ From the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is in it no soundness, Bruise and stripe and newly–made wound,––They have not been pressed out, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.

¹⁰ Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of Sodom,––Give ear to the instruction of our God, ye people of Gomorrah:–– ¹¹ Of what use to me, is your multitude of sacrifices? Saith Yahweh: I am sated with ascending–offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts,––In the blood of bulls and young rams and he–goats, have I no pleasure. ¹² When ye enter to see my face, Who hath required this at your hand, trampling my courts? ¹³ Ye shall not again, bring in an empty, present, Incense, an abomination, is that, unto me! New moon, and sabbath, calling an assembly––I cannot endure, iniquity and sacred festival! ¹⁴ Your new moons, and your appointed feasts, my soul, hateth,––They have become unto me a burden I am too weary to bear: ¹⁵ Even when ye spread forth your open palms, I hide mine eyes from you; Yea, though ye multiply, prayers, I am not hearkening,––Your hands, with deeds of blood, are filled.

⁸ Surely, in the path of thy regulations, O Yahweh, we waited for thee,––Unto thy Name and unto thy Memorial, was there a longing of soul: ⁹ With my soul, longed I for thee in the night, Yea with my spirit within me, I kept on searching for thee,––For, when thy regulations [extend] to the earth, The inhabitants of the world will have learned, righteousness.

³ Therefore have been withholden the showers, And, the latter rain, hath not come,––Yet, the forehead of an unchaste woman, hast thou, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.

¹⁵ Were they led to turn pale, because, an abominable thing, they had done! Nay! they did not, at all turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame, Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when I punish them, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh.

⁷ I have forsaken mine own house, I have given up mine inheritance,––I have delivered the dearly beloved of my soul, into the hand of her enemies: ⁸ Mine inheritance, hath become to me, as a lion in a jungle,––She hath given forth against me her voice, For this cause, have I hated her. ⁹ Is it, a variegated bird of prey, that mine inheritance is to me? The birds of prey, are round about against her! Go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

¹⁴ Hallow ye a fast, Call a solemn assembly, Gather, O elders, all the inhabitants of the land, unto the house of Yahweh your God,––and make ye outcry unto Yahweh.

¹² Even now, therefore, urgeth Yahweh, Turn ye unto me, with all your heart,––and with fasting and with weeping, and with lamentation; ¹³ And rend your heart, and not your garments, turn therefore, unto Yahweh your God,––for, gracious and full of compassion, is he, slow to anger, and abundant in loving– kindness, and will grieve over calamity. ¹⁴ Who knoweth, he may turn and grieve,––and leave behind him, a blessing, a meal–offering and a drink–offering, to Yahweh your God? ¹⁵ Blow ye a horn, in Zion,––hallow a fast, call a solemn assembly: ¹⁶ Gather the people, hallow a convocation, collect the elders, gather the children, and the sucklings of the breasts,––let the bridegroom, come forth, from his chamber, and the bride from her bower: ¹⁷ Between the porch and the altar, let the priests, weep, the attendants of Yahweh,––and let them say––Look with pity, O Yahweh, upon thy people, and do not deliver thine inheritance to reproach, that the nations, should mock them, Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
¹⁸ And Yahweh became jealous for his land,––and took pity on his people;

⁸ And I sent off three shepherds, in one month,––for impatient was my soul with them, moreover also, their soul, felt a loathing against me.

²⁰ For, where there are two or three, gathered together into my name, there, am I, in their midst.