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1 The message from Yahweh which came to Tsefanyah (son of Kush, son of Gedalyah, son of Amaryah, son of Hizkiyah) in the time of Amon’s son, King Yoshiyyah (Josiah) of Yehudah (Judah)[ref]
I will exterminate everything that lives on the ground.
I’ll bring humans and animals to an end, along with the birds and fish. Wicked people will be destroyed along with their idols and humankind will be cut-off from the earth. 4 I will punish the people of Yehudah,
≈ and those living in Yerushalem.
I will wipe all remnants of Baal out from this place.
≈ No one will even remember the names of those priests who served idols.
5 I’ll punish those who bowed down to the stars and planets from their rooftops,
≈ and those making promises to Yahweh but then promising to the false god Milcom.[fn]
6 I’ll punish those who turn back after following me, Yahweh,
as well as those who haven’t searched for Yahweh or prayed to me.
7 Be silent in the presence of the master Yahweh,
because his day is near.
Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice,
and he’s consecrated his guests.
8 On the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, I will visit their officials and the king’s sons, and all those wearing foreign clothing. 9 At that time I will punish all the officials who force their way into people’s homes—the ones filling their masters’ houses using fraud and violence.
On that day a cry of distress will come from the Fish Gate,
≈ and wailing from the second district
and a loud crash from the hills.
11 Wail, you inhabitants of the Maktesh,
because all of the people of Canaan will be destroyed.
All the money-counters will be eliminated.
12 I will search Yerushalem with lamps at that time,
and I will punish those who’ve sunk to the bottom—
the ones who tell themselves,
‘Yahweh will never take action—either good or bad.’
13 Their wealth will be taken as plunder
and their houses will be ruined.
They’ll build houses, but they won’t get to live in them.
≈ They’ll plant vineyards, but won’t get to drink their wine.
14 Yahweh’s big day of judgement is near—
≈ close and coming quickly.
The sound of Yahweh’s day is bitter—
≈ even warriors will cry out.
15 That day will be a day of anger,
a day of distress and anguish,
a day of destruction and desolation,
a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of cloud and thick darkness,
16 a day of trumpet blasts and with the battle cry
against the fortified cities and against the high towers on their corners.
17 I’ll bring distress to the people,
and they’ll walk slowly as if they were blind,
because they’ve sinned against Yahweh.
Their blood will be poured out like dust,
≈ and their innards like dung.
18 Their silver, and even their gold, won’t be able to save them
The whole earth will be consumed in the fire of his jealousy
because he’ll soon destroy people from all over the world.
1:5 A variant of the name of the pagan god ‘Molek’ (or ‘Molech’, but also close to the Hebrew word for ‘king’ as found in some other translations).
If you ask someone today what biblical prophets did, they will likely tell you that they divinely foretold of future events. While this was often the case, most prophets in the Bible focused as much on “forthtelling” God’s messages as they did on “foretelling” the future. That is, their primary role was to simply “forthtell” divinely acquired messages to leaders and groups of people, and at times that included foretelling of coming judgment, blessing, rescue, etc. Also, though plenty of prophets (sometimes called “seers” in Scripture) often spoke in confrontational or eccentric language that put them at odds with kings and religious leaders, the biblical writers also applied the term prophet to people who communicated God’s messages in ways that many readers today might not think of as prophecy, such as worship leaders appointed by David to “prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals” (1 Chronicles 25:1). Similarly, the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings are typically categorized as history by Christians, but in the Hebrew canon they belong to the category of Former Prophets. The Lord raised up prophets throughout all of biblical history, from the giving of the law under Moses to the revelation of the last days by the apostle John, and the kings of Israel and Judah often recognized and supported specific people as official prophets of the royal court and consulted them to find out God’s perspective about official matters. Following is a list of nearly everyone designated as prophet or seer in the Old Testament and the primary area of their ministry.
• Zechariah (796 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 24:20] => Jerusalem
• Jonah (780 B.C.) [2 Kings 14:25; Jonah 1:1] => Gath-hepher, Nineveh
• Hosea (770 B.C.) [Hosea 1:1] => Samaria?
• Amos (760 B.C.) [Amos 1:1] => Bethel
• Isaiah (730 B.C.) [2 Kings 19:2; 20:1; 2 Chronicles 26:22; 32:20, 32; Isaiah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Micah (730 B.C.) [Jeremiah 26:18; Micah 1:1] => Moresheth
• Nahum (650 B.C.) [Nahum 1:1] => Elkosh (Capernaum?)
• Zephaniah (630 B.C.) [Zephaniah 1:1] => Jerusalem?
• Huldah (630 B.C.) [2 Kings 22:14] => Jerusalem
• Habakkuk (600 B.C.) [Habakkuk 1:1; 3:1] => Jerusalem?
• Ezekiel (592 B.C.) [Ezekiel 1:3] => Babylonia/Chebar River
• Uriah (600 B.C.) [Jeremiah 26:20] => Kiriath-jearim
• Jeremiah (587 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 36:12; Jeremiah 1:1; 19:14] => Jerusalem
• Obadiah (586 B.C.) [Obadiah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Daniel (560 B.C.) [Daniel 7:1; Matthew 24:15] => Babylon
• Haggai (520 B.C.) [Ezra 5:1; Haggai 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Zechariah (520 B.C.) [Ezra 5:1; Zechariah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Malachi (432 B.C.) [Malachi 1:1] => Jerusalem?