Sacred Scripture · Old Testament
Zephaniah
3 Chapters · Douay-Rheims Bible · Old Testament
About This Book
Zephaniah (Sophonias), whose name, says St. Jerome, signifies The Watchman of the Lord, or The hidden of the Lord, prophesied in the beginning of the reign of Josias. He was a native of Sarabatha, and of the tribe of Simeon, according to the more general opinion. He prophesied the punishments of the Jews, for their idolatry and other crimes; also the punishments that were to come on divers nations; the coming of Christ, the conversion of the Gentiles, the blindness of the Jews, and their conversion towards the end of the world. (For more information, see the article SOPHONIAS in the Catholic Encyclopedia.)
Chapter Directory
- Chapter 1For various enormous sins, the kingdom of Judah is threatened with severe judgment.
- Chapter 2An exhortation to repentance. The judgment of the Philistines, of the Moabites, and the Ammonites; of the Ethiopians and the Assyrians.
- Chapter 3A woe to Jerusalem for her sins. A prophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles, and of the poor of Israel: God shall be with them. The Jews shall be converted at last.
Edition Record
- Book
- Zephaniah
- Translation
- Douay-Rheims Bible
- Old Testament
- First published at Douay in 1609
- New Testament
- First published at Rheims in 1582
- Revision and Notes
- Bishop Richard Challoner, 1749
- Historical Imprimatur
- James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1 September 1899