Zephaniah 3:8

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by Yahweh will be many.

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”

and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife and she isn’t defiled;

“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.

before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.

Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation, and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”

therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’

You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.