“And I Will Bring Distress upon Men . . . Because They Have Sinned against the Lord”
Zephaniah 1:17–18
17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
President Spencer W. Kimball said:
“‘And I will bring distress upon men,’ [the Lord] says, ‘that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust. . . .
“‘Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all that dwell in the land’ (Zeph. 1:17–18).
“We continue to warn the people and plead with them, for we are watchmen upon the towers, and in our hands we have a trumpet which we must blow loudly and sound the alarm.”
(“The Time to Labor Is Now,” Ensign, Nov. 1975, 7.)
