Zephaniah 1:2

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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 .

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.

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

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

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

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—

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.

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:

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

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

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

George Lamsa Translation
I will utterly remove all things from off 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.

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.

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

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
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith 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.

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.

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 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.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord gave this message to Zephaniah when Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah. Zephaniah was the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah. ² "I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth," says the Lord . ³ "I will sweep away people and animals alike. I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea. I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble, and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth," says the Lord . ⁴ "I will crush Judah and Jerusalem with my fist and destroy every last trace of their Baal worship. I will put an end to all the idolatrous priests, so that even the memory of them will disappear. ⁵ For they go up to their roofs and bow down to the sun, moon, and stars. They claim to follow the Lord , but then they worship Molech, too. ⁶ And I will destroy those who used to worship me but now no longer do. They no longer ask for the Lord 's guidance or seek my blessings."

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
The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.

Job 26:7
God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:14
These are just the beginning of all that he does, merely a whisper of his power. Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?"

Psalms 33:6
The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.

Isaiah 45:18
For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. "I am the Lord ," he says, "and there is no other.

Nahum 2:10
Soon the city is plundered, empty, and ruined. Hearts melt and knees shake. The people stand aghast, their faces pale and trembling.

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.