Zephaniah 3:5-7

Revised Standard Version

⁶ “I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    so that none walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without a man, without an inhabitant.
⁷ I said, ‘Surely she will fear me,
    she will accept correction;
she will not lose sight^[a]
    of all that I have enjoined upon her.’
But all the more they were eager
    to make all their deeds corrupt.”