• Hidden in the Day of Jehovah’s Anger
    The Watchtower—1981 | August 15

    • “THE UTTERANCE OF JEHOVAH”

      4. (a) With what decisive utterance does the prophecy begin? (b) What does it identify as the root of Judah’s troubles, and how?

      4 Through Zephaniah, Jehovah made it plain that he would bring wickedness to a complete end. The prophecy opens with the words:

      “‘I shall without fail finish everything off the surface of the ground,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.”

      It was to be an extermination, a rooting out of all things detestable in Jehovah’s eyes. This “utterance” went straight to the point in showing what was back of Judah’s troubles​—false religion!