Zephaniah 1:12

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

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WEBBE

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

BSB

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

KJV

And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

ASV

And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps; and I will punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil.

BBE

And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

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וְהָיָה ve·ha·yah and it will be H1961 בָּעֵת ba·'et at the time H6256 הַהִיא ha·hi' (the) that H1931 אֲחַפֵּשׂ 'a·cha·pes I will search H2664 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 יְרוּשָׁלִַם ye·ru·sha·lim Jerusalem H3389 בַּנֵּרוֹת ba·ne·rot with (the) lamps H5216 וּפָקַדְתִּי u·fa·kad·ti and I will visit [judgment] H6485 עַל־ 'al- on H5921 הָאֲנָשִׁים ha·'a·na·shim the people H582 הַקֹּפְאִים ha·ko·fe·'im who are thickening H7087 עַל־ 'al- on H5921 שִׁמְרֵיהֶם shim·rei·hem lees their H8105 הָאֹמְרִים ha·'o·me·rim who are saying H559 בִּלְבָבָם bil·va·vam in heart their H3824 לֹא־ lo'- not H3808 יֵיטִיב yei·tiv he will do good H3190 יְהוָה yah·weh Yahweh H3068 וְלֹא ve·lo' and not H3808 יָרֵעַ ya·re·a' he will do harm H7489

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 7–13

God's day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is a sacrifice to the justice of God. The Jewish royal family shall be reckoned with for their pride and vanity; and those that leap on the threshold, invading their neighbours' rights, and seizing their possessions. The trading people and the rich merchants are called to account. Secure and careless people are reckoned with. They are secure and easy; they say in their heart, the Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil; that is, they deny his dispensing rewards and punishments. But in the day of the Lord's judgment, it will clearly appear that those who perish, fall a sacrifice to Divine justice for breaking God's law, and because they have no interest by faith in the Redeemer's atoning sacrifice.

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Cross-references

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People & places

Jerusalem

Topics

Wicked (People)Symbols And SimilitudesBlasphemyInfidelityConfidenceLampSkepticismLees

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.