Holy Scripture

Zephaniah 1:7

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 7.) Be silent before the face of the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is near, for the Lord has prepared a sacrifice; He has sanctified His called ones. LXX: Fear before the face of the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is near, for the Lord has prepared His victim; He has sanctified His called ones. Because t…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Zephaniah

Source: Septuagint

Original

7Fear ye before the Lord God; for the day of the Lord is near; for the Lord has prepared his sacrifice, and has sanctified his guests.

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In context

5and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and swear by the Lord, and them that swear by their king;

6and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

— Zephaniah 1:7 —

8And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will take vengeance on the princes, and on the king’s house, and upon all that wear strange apparel.

9And I will openly take vengeance on the porches in that day, on the men that fill the house of the Lord their God with ungodliness and deceit.

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