Zephaniah 2

1 I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: the holy one in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the city. 2 They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion: because he shall roar, and the children of the sea shall fear. 3 And they shall fly away like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will place them in their own houses, saith the Lord. 4 Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with God, and is faithful with the saints. 6 Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt. 7 Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and a visitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to his ways, and according to his devices. 8 In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel. 9 And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us. 10 Even the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial. 11 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always. 12 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression. 13 And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed. 14 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast. 15 And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.