Zephaniah צְפַנְיָה

Zephaniah (Tzefanyah), a great-great-grandson of Hezekiah prophesying in the days of Josiah, announces the day of Hashem with a severity unmatched among the Twelve: 'I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the earth' — Judah and the remnant of Baal, the idolatrous priests, they that swear by Malcam, they that are settled on their lees saying in their heart 'Hashem will not do good, neither will He do evil.' That day is near and hastens greatly — 'a day of wrath is that day, a day of trouble and distress, a day of waste and desolation' — and it widens to Philistia, Moab and Ammon (which shall be as Sodom), Ethiopia, and Assyria, with Nineveh a desolation, dry like the wilderness. Yet the humble of the earth are shown a refuge — 'seek righteousness, seek humility; it may be you shall be hid in the day of Hashem's anger' — and the book ends in pure consolation: a pure language turned to the peoples that they may all call upon the name of Hashem; 'Sing, O daughter of Zion... Hashem your God is in the midst of you, a Mighty One who will save; He will rejoice over you with joy'; the captivity turned before your eyes. This volume presents the complete Hebrew text with English translation, a word-by-word interlinear layer with transliteration, roots, and gematria, and the classic commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Radak, Metzudat David, Metzudat Zion, Malbim, and Abarbanel, newly translated into English.