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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
SOPHONIAS, whose name, saith St. Jerome, signifies The Watchman of theLord, or The hidden of the Lord, prophesied in the beginning of thereign of Josias. He was a native of Sarabatha, and of the tribe ofSimeon, according to the more general opinion. He prophesied thepunishments of the Jews, for their idolatry and other crimes; also thepunishments that were to come on divers nations; the coming of Christ,the conversion of the Gentiles, the blindness of the Jews, and theirconversion towards the end of the world.
Sophonias Chapter 1
For divers enormous sins, the kingdom of Juda is threatened with severejudgment.
1:1. The word of the Lord that came to Sophonias the son of Chusi, theson of Godolias, the son of Amarias, the son of Ezechias, in the days ofJosias, the son of Amon king of Juda.
1:2. Gathering, I will gather together all things from off the face ofthe land, saith the Lord:
Gathering, I will gather, etc… That is, I will assuredly take away,and wholly consume, either by captivity, or death, both men and beastsout of this land.
1:3. I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air,and the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and Iwill destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord.
1:4. And I will stretch out my hand upon Juda, and upon all theinhabitants of Jerusalem: and I will destroy out of this place theremnant of Baal, and the names of the wardens of the temples with thepriests:
The wardens, etc… Viz., of the temples of the idols. AEdituos, inHebrew, the Chemarims, that is, such as kindle the fires, or burnincense.
1:5. And them that worship the host of heaven upon the tops of houses,and them that adore, and swear by the Lord, and swear by Melchom.
Melchom… The idol of the Ammonites.
1:6. And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and thathave not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.
1:7. Be silent before the face of the Lord God: for the day of the Lordis near, for the Lord hath prepared a victim, he hath sanctified hisguests.
1:8. And it shall come to pass in the day of the victim of the Lord,that I will visit upon the princes, and upon the king's sons, and uponall such as are clothed with strange apparel:
1:9. And I will visit in that day upon every one that enteretharrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lordtheir God with iniquity and deceit.
1:10. And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the noise