西番雅書1:14-18

1:14 耶和華的大日臨近，臨近而且甚快，乃是耶和華日子的風聲；勇士必痛痛地哭號。

1:15 那日是忿怒的日子，是急難困苦的日子，是荒廢淒涼的日子，是黑暗幽冥、密雲烏黑的日子，

1:16 是吹角吶喊的日子，要攻擊堅固城和高大的城樓。

1:17 我必使災禍臨到人身上，使他們行走如同瞎眼的，因為得罪了我。他們的血必倒出如灰塵；他們的肉必拋棄如糞土。

1:18 當耶和華發怒的日子，他們的金銀不能救他們；他的忿怒如火必燒滅全地，毀滅這地的一切居民，而且大大毀滅。

The great day of the Lord is near,

near and hastening fast;

the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;

 the mighty man cries aloud there.

A day of wrath is that day,

a day of distress and anguish,

a day of ruin and devastation,

 a day of darkness and gloom,

 a day of clouds and thick darkness,

 a day of trumpet blast and battle cry

 against the fortified cities

and against the lofty battlements.

I will bring distress on mankind,

so that they shall walk like the blind,

because they have sinned against the Lord;

 their blood shall be poured out like dust,

and their flesh like dung.

Neither their silver nor their gold

shall be able to deliver them

on the day of the wrath of the Lord.

 In the fire of his jealousy,

 all the earth shall be consumed;

 for a full and sudden end

he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

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    在文中一直提到「日子」，表示上帝看重那「日子」，而且使很緊迫的。因為上帝要做的事，是人無法阻擋的，是必定要成就的！

    然而上帝審判的日子，人靠自己是無法站立得住的，需要有耶穌的救贖，人才可以站立得住！