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The Day of the LORD

Zephaniah 1:9

In 11 translations

BSB
On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.See 1 Samuel 5:5.Or the temple of their gods
KJV
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
WEB
In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
ASV
And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
LSV
And I have laid a charge on everyone || Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, || Who are filling the house of their masters || [With] violence and deceit.
YLT
And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters [With] violence and deceit.
DBY
And in that day will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
DRC
And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.
GNV
In the same day also will I visite all those that dance vpon the threshold so proudly, which fill their masters houses by crueltie and deceite.
JPS
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
LXXE
And I will openly take vengeance on the porches in that day, on the men that fill the house of the Lord their God with ungodliness and deceit.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּפָקַדְתִּ֗י עַ֧ל כָּל־הַדּוֹלֵ֛ג עַל־הַמִּפְתָּ֖ן בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא הַֽמְמַלְאִ֛ים בֵּ֥ית אֲדֹנֵיהֶ֖ם חָמָ֥ס וּמִרְמָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐκδικήσω ἐμφανῶς ἐπὶ τὰ πρόπυλα ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, τοὺς πληροῦντας τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου Θεοῦ αὐτῶν ἀσεβείας καὶ δόλου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Samuel 5:5That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.
  • Amos 3:10“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
  • Nehemiah 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.
  • Proverbs 29:12If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
  • 1 Samuel 2:15–16Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.” And if…
  • 2 Kings 5:20–27Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, while not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”…
  • Acts 16:19When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.

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