God’s Judgment on Jerusalem (3:1-8).  

        We have here the explanation why in 1:2-2:3 social sin and wrongdoing are hardly mentioned. However grievous the corrupt worship of Jerusalem, for Zephaniah the social in­justice was worse, so it is dealt with as the climax of the pro­phecy of judgment. We find in ver. 6f an echo of the constant prophetic teaching that Jehovah is the God of all the earth; national calamity anywhere in the Near East should have been recognized in Judah as a sign that Jehovah was still reigning in righteousness.