1   The word ^note of our Lord that was made to Sophonie the sonne of Chusi, the sonne of Godolias, the sonne of Amarias, the sonne of Ezechias, in the dayes of Iosias the sonne of Amon king of Iuda.

2    ^noteGathering I wil gather together al thinges from the face of the earth, sayth our Lord:

3   gathering man, and beast, gathering the foules of the heauen, and fishes of the sea: and there shal be ruines of the impious: and I wil destroy men from the face of the earth, sayth our Lord.

4   And I wil stretch forth my hand vpon Iuda, and vpon al the inhabitantes of Ierusalem: and I wil destroy out of this place the remnant of Baal, and the names of the temple wardens with the priests:

5   and them that adore vpon the toppes of houses the host of heauen, and adore, and sweare ^note by our Lord, and sweare by

Melchom.

6   And them that turne away from after the backe of our Lord, and that haue not sought our Lord, nor searched after him.

7   Be silent before the face of our Lord God: because ^note the day of our Lord is nere, because our Lord hath prepared an host, he hath sanctified his called.

8   And it shal be: in the day of the host of our Lord I wil visite vpon the princes, and vpon ^note the kinges sonnes, and vpon al that are clothed with strange clothing:

9   and I wil visite vpon euerie one, that arrogantly entereth vpon the threshold in that day, them that fil the house of our Lord their God with iniquitie, & guile.

10   And it shal be in that day, sayth our Lord, the voice of clamor from the gate of fishes, and howling from the second, and great destruction from the hilles.

11   Howle ye inhabitants of the ^note Morter. Al the people of Chanaan is hush, al are perished that were wrapped in siluer.

12   & it shal be in that time: I wil search Ierusalem with lampes, and wil visite vpon the men that are fixed in their dregges: that say in their hartes: The Lord wil not doe good, and he wil not doe euil.

13   And their strength shal be into spoile, and their houses as a desert: and they shal build houses, and shal not inhabite them: and shal plant vineyards, & shal not drinke the wine of them.

14    ^noteThe great day of our Lord is neere, it is neere and exceding swift: the voice of the day of our Lord is bitter, the strong shal there haue tribulation.

15   That day ^note a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distresse, a day of calamitie and miserie, a day of darknes and mist, a day of clowde & whirlewind:

16   a day of the trumpet and sound vpon the fensed cities, & vpon the high corners.

17   And I wil afflict men, and they shal walke as blindmen, because they haue sinned to our Lord: and their bloud shal be powred out as dust, and their bodies as dung.

18   Yea and their siluer, and their gold shal not be able to deliuer them in the day of the wrath of our Lord: in the fire of his ielousie shal al the earth be deuoured, because he wil make consummation with speede to al that inhabit the earth. Chap. II. ^note An exhortation to repent: 4 with prophecie of the destruction of the Philistims: 8. Moabites and Ammonites; 12. Æthiopians: 13. Assirians: 15. with their chief citie Niniue.

1   Come together, be ^note ye gathered together ô nation not to be beloued:

2   before that the commandment bring forth the day as dust passing away, before the wrath of the furie of our Lord come vpon you, before the day of the indignation of our Lord come vpon you.

3   Seeke our Lord al ye meeke of the earth, which haue wrought his iudgement: seeke the iust, seeke the meeke: if by any meanes you may be hid in the day of the furie of our Lord.

4   Because Gaza ^note is destroyed, and Ascalon as a desert, Azotus at noone they shal cast out, and Accaron shal be rooted out.

5   Wo to you that inhabite the cord of the sea, ô nation of castawayes: the word of our Lord vpon you ô Chanaan land of the Philisthims, and I wil destroy thee, so that there shal not be an inhabiter.

6   And the cord of the sea shal be the rest of pastours, and foldes of cattel.

7   and it shal be the cord of him, that shal remayne of the house of Iuda, there they shal feede: in the houses of Ascalon at euen they shal rest: because our Lord their God wil visite them, and turne away their captiuitie.

8   I haue heard the reproch of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon, with which they haue vpbrayded my people, and were magnified vpon their borders.

9   Therfore liue I, sayth the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, that Moab shal be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, drynes of thornes, and heapes of salt, and a desert euen for euer: the remnant of my people shal spoile them, and the residue of my nation shal possesse them.

10   This shal befal them for their pride: because they haue blasphemed, and haue beene magnified vpon the people of the Lord of hosts.

11   Our Lord shal be dreadful vpon them, and shal attenuate al the goddes of the earth: and they shal adore him euerie man out of his owne place, al the ilands of the Gentils.

12   Yea and you Æthiopians shal be slaine with my sword.

13   And he wil stretch forth his hand vpon the North, and wil destroy Assur: and he wil lay the Beautiful as a wildernes, and as a place not passable, and as a desert.

14   And flockes shal lie in the middes therof, al the beastes of the Gentils: and onocratulus, and the Irchin shal abide in the thresholdes therof: the voice of one singing in the window, the rauen on the vpper post, because I wil attenuate her strength.

15   This is ^note the glorious citie dwelling in confidence: that sayd in her hart: I am, and beside me there is none other els: how is she become as a desert the couche for beastes? euerie one that passeth by her, shal hisse, and wag his hand.

Chap. III. ^note Ierusalem for reiecting Gods admonitions shal be destroyed, 7. Christ being risen from death; the Iewes persecuting the faithful shal be reiected, miserably destroyed, 9. and the Gentils called. 11. So his Church shal floorish. 13. and at last the Iewes shal be conuerted.

1   VVo to thee thou ^note prouoking, and redemed citie, the doue,

2   She hath not heard the voice, and she hath not receiued discipline: she hath not trusted in our Lord, to her God she hath not approched.

3   Her princes in the middes of her as lions roarnig: her iudges wolues in the euening, left nothing for the morning.

4   Her prophets madde, men vnfaythful: her priests haue polluted the holie, they haue done vniustly agaynst the law.

5   Our iust Lord in the middes therof wil not doe iniquitie: in the morning in the morning he wil ^note geue his iudgement into light, and it shal not be hid: but the wicked man hath not knowen the confusion.

6   I haue destroyed the Gentils, & their corners are dissipated: I haue made their wayes desert, whiles there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, not a man remayning, nor any inhabiter.

7   I sayd: Neuertheles thou shalt feare me, thou shalt receiue discipline: and her habitation shal not perish for al thinges, wherin I haue visited her: but yet rysing early they corrupted al their cagitations.

8   Wherfore ^note expect me, sayth our Lord, in the day of my resurrection til hereafter, because my iudgement to assemble the Gentils, and to gather kingdomes: & to powre vpon them mine indignation, al the wrath of my furie: for in the fyre of my ielousie shal al the earth be deuoured.

9   Because ^notethen wil I restore to the peoples, a chosen lippe, that al may inuocate in the name of the Lord, & may serue him with one shoulder.

10   Beyond the riuers of Æthiopia, thence shal my suppliants the children of my dispersed bring me a gift.

11   In that day thou shalt not be confounded vpon al thine inuentions, wherin thou hast preuaricated against me: because then wil I take away out of the middes of thee the loftie speakers of thy pride, & thou shalt adde no more to be exalted in my holie mount.

12   And I wil leaue in the middes of thee a people poore and needie: & they shal hope in the name of our Lord.

13   The remn&abar;t of Israel shal not doe iniquitie, neyther shal they speake leasing, and deceitful tongue shal not be found in their mouth: because they shal feede, and

shal lie downe, and there shal be none to make them afrayd.

14   Prayse ô daughter of Sion: make iubilation Israel: be glad, & reioyce in al thy hart ô daughter of Ierusalem.

15   Our Lord hath taken away thy iudgement, he hath turned away thine enemies: the king of Israel our Lord in the middes of thee, thou shalt feare euil no more.

16   In that day it shal be sayd to Ierusalem: Feare not: to Sion, let not thy handes be dissolued.

17   Our Lord thy God in the middes of thee strong, he wil saue: he wil reioyce vpon thee in gladnes, he wil be silent in his loue he wil be ioyful vpon thee in prayse.

18   The ^notetriflers that were departed from thee, I wil gather together, because they were of thee: that thou mayst no more haue reproch for them.

19   Behold I wil kil al that haue afflicted thee at that time: and I wil saue the halt, & her that was cast out I wil gather: and I wil make them into prayse, and into name, in al the land of their confusion.

20   In that time, when I wil bring you: and in the time, that I wil gather you: for I wil geue you into a name, and into prayse to al the people of the earth, when I shal conuert your captiuitie before your eyes, saith our Lord.

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