Isa 50:2, Zep 1:2-3 | ESV | STEP | Why , when I came , was there no man ; why, when I called , was there no one to answer ? Is my hand shortened , that it cannot redeem ? Or have I no power to deliver ? Behold , by my rebuke I dry up the sea , I make the rivers a desert ; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst .

Isaiah 50:2

2 ^aWhy, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
^bIs my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
^cBehold, by my rebuke ^dI dry up the sea,
^eI make the rivers a desert;
^ftheir fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.

Zephaniah 1:2-3

The Coming Judgment on Judah

2 ^g“I will utterly sweep away everything
from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.
3 “I will sweep away ^hman and beast;
I will sweep away the birds of the heavens
and ⁱthe fish of the sea,
and ^jthe rubble ^{▼▼Or stumbling blocks (that is, idols)} with the wicked.
I will ^lcut off mankind
from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.