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  • Community:
    Covenant
    By:
    Randy McDonald
    Date:
    Scripture:
    Mark 14

  • Zephaniah 1:14–3:6

    14   The great day of the LORD is near,
        near and hastening fast;
      the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter;
        the mighty man cries aloud there.
    15   A day of wrath is that day,
        a day of distress and anguish,
      a day of ruin and devastation,
        a day of darkness and gloom,
      a day of clouds and thick darkness,
    16     a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
      against the fortified cities
        and against the lofty battlements.
    17   I will bring distress on mankind,
        so that they shall walk like the blind,
        because they have sinned against the LORD;
      their blood shall be poured out like dust,
        and their flesh like dung.
    18   Neither their silver nor their gold
        shall be able to deliver them
        on the day of the wrath of the LORD.
      In the fire of his jealousy,
        all the earth shall be consumed;
      for a full and sudden end
        he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

    Judgment on Judah’s Enemies

    2:1   Gather together, yes, gather,
        O shameless nation,
    2   before the decree takes effect
        —before the day passes away like chaff—
      before there comes upon you
        the burning anger of the LORD,
      before there comes upon you
        the day of the anger of the LORD.
    3   Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land,
        who do his just commands;
      seek righteousness; seek humility;
        perhaps you may be hidden
        on the day of the anger of the LORD.
    4   For Gaza shall be deserted,
        and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;
      Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon,
        and Ekron shall be uprooted.
    5   Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast,
        you nation of the Cherethites!
      The word of the LORD is against you,
        O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
        and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
    6   And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures,
        with meadows for shepherds
        and folds for flocks.
    7   The seacoast shall become the possession
        of the remnant of the house of Judah,
        on which they shall graze,
      and in the houses of Ashkelon
        they shall lie down at evening.
      For the LORD their God will be mindful of them
        and restore their fortunes.
    8   “I have heard the taunts of Moab
        and the revilings of the Ammonites,
      how they have taunted my people
        and made boasts against their territory.
    9   Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts,
        the God of Israel,
      “Moab shall become like Sodom,
        and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
      a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
        and a waste forever.
      The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
        and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
    10   This shall be their lot in return for their pride,
        because they taunted and boasted
        against the people of the LORD of hosts.
    11   The LORD will be awesome against them;
        for he will famish all the gods of the earth,
      and to him shall bow down,
        each in its place,
        all the lands of the nations.
    12   You also, O Cushites,
        shall be slain by my sword.
    13   And he will stretch out his hand against the north
        and destroy Assyria,
      and he will make Nineveh a desolation,
        a dry waste like the desert.
    14   Herds shall lie down in her midst,
        all kinds of beasts;
      even the owl and the hedgehog
        shall lodge in her capitals;
      a voice shall hoot in the window;
        devastation will be on the threshold;
        for her cedar work will be laid bare.
    15   This is the exultant city
        that lived securely,
      that said in her heart,
        “I am, and there is no one else.”
      What a desolation she has become,
        a lair for wild beasts!
      Everyone who passes by her
        hisses and shakes his fist.

    Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations

    3:1   Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
        the oppressing city!
    2   She listens to no voice;
        she accepts no correction.
      She does not trust in the LORD;
        she does not draw near to her God.
    3   Her officials within her
        are roaring lions;
      her judges are evening wolves
        that leave nothing till the morning.
    4   Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
      her priests profane what is holy;
        they do violence to the law.
    5   The LORD within her is righteous;
        he does no injustice;
      every morning he shows forth his justice;
        each dawn he does not fail;
        but the unjust knows no shame.
    6   “I have cut off nations;
        their battlements are in ruins;
      I have laid waste their streets
        so that no one walks in them;
      their cities have been made desolate,
        without a man, without an inhabitant.