Zephaniah 1:2

Good News Translation

The Lord said, "I am going to destroy everything on earth,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will completely sweep away everythingfrom the face of the earth—

Hebrew Names Version
I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the eretz, says the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
I will vtterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.

King James Version
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord .

English Standard Version
"I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the Lord .

New American Standard Bible
"I will completely remove all things From the face of the earth," declares the LORD.

New Century Version
"I will sweep away everything from the earth," says the Lord .

Amplified Bible
"I will completely consume and sweep away all things From the face of the earth [in judgment]," says the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will surely destroy all things from off the land, saith the Lorde.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will completely remove all things From the face of the earth," declares the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
"I will completely end all thingsFrom the face of the ground," declares Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
"I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord , now promise to destroy everything on this earth—

Complete Jewish Bible
"I will completely sweep away everything off the face of the land," says Adonai .

Darby Translation
I will utterly take away everything from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah:

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord says, "I will destroy everything on earth.

George Lamsa Translation
I will utterly remove all things from off the face of the earth, says the LORD.

Lexham English Bible
"I will surely destroy everything from the face of the earth"—a declaration of Yahweh.

Literal Translation
I will completely gather away all from on the face of the ground, declares Jehovah.

American Standard Version
I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
I will take away everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the earth, saith the LORD.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I will surely destroy all thinges in the land, sayth the Lorde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let there be an utter cutting off from the face of the land, saith the Lord.

English Revised Version
I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith the LORD.

World English Bible
I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y gaderinge schal gadere alle thingis fro the face of erthe, seith the Lord;

Update Bible Version
I will completely consume all things from off the face of the ground, says Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will utterly consume all [things] from off the land, saith the LORD.

New English Translation
"I will destroy everything from the face of the earth," says the Lord .

New King James Version
"I will utterly consume everything From the face of the land," Says the LORD;

New Living Translation
"I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth," says the Lord .

New Life Bible
"I will take away everything from the earth," says the Lord.

New Revised Standard
I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will take clean away everything from off the face of the ground, Declareth Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Gathering, I will gather together all things from off the face of the land, saith the Lord:

Revised Standard Version
"I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," says the LORD.

Young's Literal Translation
I utterly consume all from off the face of the ground, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I will gather vp all thinges in the londe (saieth the LORDE)

THE MESSAGE
"I'm going to make a clean sweep of the earth, a thorough housecleaning." God 's Decree.

Contextual Overview

¹ This is the message that the Lord gave to Zephaniah during the time that Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah. (Zephaniah was descended from King Hezekiah through Amariah, Gedaliah, and Cushi.) ² The Lord said, "I am going to destroy everything on earth, ³ all human beings and animals, birds and fish. I will bring about the downfall of the wicked. I will destroy everyone, and no survivors will be left. I, the Lord , have spoken. ⁴ "I will punish the people of Jerusalem and of all Judah. I will destroy the last trace of the worship of Baal there, and no one will even remember the pagan priests who serve him. ⁵ I will destroy anyone who goes up on the roof and worships the sun, the moon, and the stars. I will also destroy those who worship me and swear loyalty to me, but then take oaths in the name of the god Molech. ⁶ I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: etc. Heb. By taking away I will make an end, utterly. 2 Kings 22:16, 2 Kings 22:17, 2 Chronicles 36:21, Isaiah 6:11, Jeremiah 6:8, Jeremiah 6:9, Jeremiah 24:8-10, Jeremiah 34:22, Jeremiah 36:29, Ezekiel 33:27-29, Micah 7:13

land: Heb. face of the land

Reciprocal: Ezra 8:22 - his power and his wrath Jeremiah 4:25 - there was no man Ezekiel 6:6 - the cities Micah 2:4 - We Habakkuk 1:5 - for Zephaniah 1:18 - he shall

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw.

Genesis 1:14
Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;

Job 26:7
God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.

Job 26:14
But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is?

Psalms 33:6
The Lord created the heavens by his command, the sun, moon, and stars by his spoken word.

Isaiah 45:18
The Lord created the heavens— he is the one who is God! He formed and made the earth— he made it firm and lasting. He did not make it a desolate waste, but a place for people to live. It is he who says, "I am the Lord , and there is no other god.

Nahum 2:10
Nineveh is destroyed, deserted, desolate! Hearts melt with fear; knees tremble, strength is gone; faces grow pale.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will utterly consume all [things] from off the land, saith the Lord. That is, from the land of Judah, by means of the Chaldeans or Babylonians: this is a general denunciation of the judgments of God, the particulars follow: or, "in gathering I will gather"; all good things out of the land; all the necessaries of life, and blessings of Providence; all that is for the sustenance and pleasure of man, as well as all creatures, by death or captivity; and so the land should be entirely stripped, and left naked and bare. The phrase denotes the certainty of the thing, as well as the utter, entire, and total consumption that should be made, and the vehemence and earnestness in which it is expressed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will utterly consume all things - Better “all.” The word is not limited to “things” “animate” or “inanimate” or “men;” it is used severally of each, according to the context; here, without limitation, of “all.” God and all stand over against one another; God and all which is not of God or in God. God, he says, will utterly consume all from off the land (earth). The prophet sums up in few words the subject of the whole chapter, the judgments of God from his own times to the day of Judgment itself. And this Day Itself he brings the more strongly before the mind, in that, with wonderful briefness, in two words which he conforms, in sound also, the one to the other, he expresses the utter final consumption of all things. He expresses at once the intensity of action and blends their separate meanings, “Taking away I will make an end of all;” and with this he unites the words used of the flood, “from off the face of the earth.”

Then he goes through the whole creation as it was made, pairing “man and beast,” which Moses speaks of as created on the sixth day, and the creation of the fifth day, “the fowls of the heaven and the fishes of the sea;” and before each he sets the solemn word of God, “I will end,” as the act of God Himself. The words can have no complete fulfillment, until “the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up” 2 Peter 3:10, as the Psalmist too, having gone through the creation, sums up, “Thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust” Psalms 104:29; and then speaks of the re-creation, “Thou sendest forth Thy Spirit, they are created; and Thou renewest the face of the earth” Ps. 104:36, and, “Of old Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands; they shall perish, but Thou shalt endure, yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed” Ps. 103:25.

Local fulfillments there may, in their degree, be. Jerome speaks as if he knew this to have been. Jerome: “Even the brute animals feel the wrath of the Lord, and when cities have been wasted and men slain, there cometh a desolation and scarceness of beasts also and birds and fishes; witness Illyricum, witness Thrace, witness my native soil,” (Stridon, a city on the confines of Dalmatia and Pannonia) “where, beside sky and earth and rampant brambles and deep thickets, all has perished.” But although this fact, which he alleges, is borne out by natural history, it is distinct from the words of the prophet, who speaks of the fish, not of rivers (as Jerome) but of the sea, which can in no way be influenced by the absence of man, who is only their destroyer. The use of the language of the histories of the creation and of the deluge implies that the prophet has in mind a destruction commensurate with that creation. Then he foretells the final removal of offences, in the same words which our Lord uses of the general Judgment. “The Son of Man shall send forth His Angels and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them that do iniquity” Matthew 13:41.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zephaniah 1:2. I will utterly consume all things] All being now ripe for destruction, I will shortly bring a universal scourge upon the land. He speaks particularly of the idolaters.