Zep 1:7-9 | ESV | STEP | Be silent before the Lord God ! For the day of the Lord is near ; the Lord has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests .

Zephaniah 1:7-9

The Day of the Lord Is Near

7 ^aBe silent before the Lord God!
For ^bthe day of the Lord is near;
^cthe Lord has prepared a sacrifice
and ^dconsecrated his guests.
8 And on the day of the Lord’s sacrifice—
^e“I will punish the officials and the king’s sons
and ^fall who array themselves in foreign attire.
9 On that day I will punish
everyone ^gwho leaps over the threshold,
and those who fill their master’s ^{▼▼Or their Lord’s} house
with violence and fraud.