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Life in this world is a period of separation from God, which is full of sorrow, and pain:
Sorrow is the bedstead, Pain the fiber with which it is woven, And separation is the quilt. See this is the life we lead, O Lord. 
Absorption in the affairs of the world, in forgetfulness of God, is regarded by Sheikh Farid as desertion by a woman of her husband and going over to an alien house. 
1266 Baba Sheikh Farid Ji
1350 B.C. Job The righteous (whose name means "persecuted"), God's faithful servant, was the perfect image of every virtue
900 b.c. Elijah (the Lord's strength) The Holy Prophet is one of the greatest of the prophets and the first dedicated to virginity in the Old Testament. He was born in Tishba of Gilead into the Levite tribe 900 years before the Incarnation of the Word of God; Elijah then declared to Ahab, as punishment neither rain nor dew upon the ground, and the drought would cease only by his prayer; power of his prayer  flour and oil were not depleted in the home of the widow for the duration of the famine: he raised the dead son of the widow
9th v. BC June 14  Elisha The Holy Prophet was a native of the village of Abelmaum, near Jordan. By the command of the Lord he was called to prophetic service by the holy Prophet Elias (July 20).  He spent more than 65 years in prophetic service, under six Israelite kings (from Ahab to Joash). While Elisha lived, he did not tremble before any prince, and no word could overcome him (Sirach 48: 13 ["Sirach" is called "Ecclesiasticus" in Catholic Bibles ]).
June 27
Elisha, the Prophet
- 650 bc The Holy Prophet Habakkuk 8th of the Twelve Minor Prophets foresaw destruction of Jerusalem Temple, the Babylonian Captivity and later return of captives to their native land.
descended from Tribe of Simeon he prophesied  650 B.C.

-626 bc Prophet Zephaniah eliminate idol-worship prophesied calamities to come for people of Judea and Gaza, Ascalon, Crete, and against Moabites, Ammonites and Ninevites contemporary of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Prophetess Oldama
If 626 BC is accepted, then the ministries of Jeremiah and Zephaniah began in the same year" (Homer Hailey).
Prophet Zephaniah {means "defended by God."} { (Hebrew -- Tsephan-yah) means "Yahweh hides" or "Yahweh has hidden." (Sophonias) {(means "the Lord is my secret")} was a contemporary of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Prophetess Oldama.
He was from the tribe of Simeon, and was the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament.
600 B.C. May 01 The Holy Prophet Jeremiah, one of four great Old Testament prophets regarded as a wonderworker

900 b.c. Elijah (the Lord's strength) The Holy Prophet is one of the greatest of the prophets and the first dedicated to virginity in the Old Testament. He was born in Tishba of Gilead into the Levite tribe 900 years before the Incarnation of the Word of God; Elijah then declared to Ahab, as punishment neither rain nor dew upon the ground, and the drought would cease only by his prayer; power of his prayer  flour and oil were not depleted in the home of the widow for the duration of the famine: he raised the dead son of the widow
In monte Carmélo sancti Elíæ Prophétæ.    On Mount Carmel, the holy prophet Elijah.
900 b.c. Elijah (the Lord's strength) The Holy Prophet is one of the greatest of the prophets and the first dedicated to virginity in the Old Testament. He was born in Tishba of Gilead into the Levite tribe 900 years before the Incarnation of the Word of God; Elijah then declared to Ahab, as punishment neither rain nor dew upon the ground, and the drought would cease only by his prayer; power of his prayer  flour and oil were not depleted in the home of the widow for the duration of the famine: he raised the dead son of the widow
In monte Carmélo sancti Elíæ Prophétæ.    On Mount Carmel, the holy prophet Elijah.

St Epiphanius of Cyprus gives the following account about the birth of the Prophet Elijah:
"When Elijah was born, his father Sobach saw in a vision angels of God around him.
They swaddled him with fire and fed him with flames."
    The name Elijah (the Lord's strength) given to the infant defined his whole life. From the years of his youth he dedicated himself to the One God, settled in the wilderness and spent his whole life in strict fasting, meditation and prayer.
Called to prophetic service, which put him in conflict with the Israelite king Ahab, the prophet became a fiery zealot of true faith and piety.

During this time the Israelite nation had fallen away from the faith of their Fathers, they abandoned the One God and worshipped pagan idols, the worship of which was introduced by the impious king Jereboam. Jezebel, the wife of king Ahab, was devoted to idol worship. She persuaded her husband to build a temple to the pagan god Baal, which led many Israelites away from the worship of the true God.  Beholding the ruin of his nation, the Prophet Elijah began to denounce King Ahab for impiety, and exhorted him to repent and turn to the God of Israel. 

The king would not listen to him. The Prophet Elijah then declared to him, that as punishment there would be neither rain nor dew upon the ground, and the drought would cease only by his prayer. Indeed, the word of Elijah was a torch (Eccles. 48: 1) The heavens were closed for three and a half years, and there was drought and famine throughout all the land.

During this time of tribulation, the Lord sent him to a cave beyond the Jordan. There he was miraculously fed by ravens. When the stream Horath dried up, the Lord sent the Prophet Elijah to Sarephta to a poor widow, a Sidonian Gentile who suffered together with her children, awaiting death by starvation. At the request of the prophet, she prepared him a bread with the last measure of flour and the remainder of the oil. Through the prayer of the Prophet Elijah, flour and oil were not depleted in the home of the widow for the duration of the famine. By the power of his prayer the prophet also performed another miracle: he raised the dead son of the widow.

After the end of three years of drought the Merciful Lord sent the prophet to appear before King Ahab, and promised to send rain upon the earth. The Prophet Elijah told the king to order all of Israel to gather upon Mount Carmel, and also the priests of Baal. When the nation had gathered, the Prophet Elijah proposed that two sacrificial altars be built: one for the priests of Baal, and the other for the Prophet Elijah who served the True God.

The Prophet Elijah told them to call on their gods to consume the sacrificial animals with fire, and he would call on his. Whichever was first to send fire on the sacrifice would be acknowledged as the true God. The prophets of Baal called out to their idol from morning till evening, but the heavens were silent. Towards evening the holy Prophet Elijah built his sacrificial altar from twelve stones, the number of the tribes of Israel. He placed the sacrifice upon the wood, gave orders to dig a ditch around the altar and commanded that the sacrifice and the wood be soaked with water. When the ditch had filled with water, the prophet turned to God in prayer. Through the prayer of the prophet fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, and even the water. The people fell down to the ground, crying out: "Truly, the Lord is God!" Then the Prophet Elijah had all the pagan-priests of Baal put to death, and he began to pray for rain. Through his prayer the heavens opened and an abundant rain fell, soaking the parched earth.

King Ahab acknowledged his error and repented of his sins, but his wife Jezebel threatened to kill the prophet of God. The Prophet Elijah fled into the Kingdom of Judea and, grieving over his failure to eradicate idol worship, he asked God to let him die. An angel of the Lord came before him, strengthened him with food and commanded him to go upon a long journey. The Prophet Elijah traveled for forty days and nights and, having arrived at Mount Horeb, he settled in a cave.

The Lord told him that the next day Elijah would stand in His presence.There was a strong wind that crushed the rocks of the mountain, then an earthquake, and a fire, but the Lord was not in them. The Lord was in "a gentle breeze" (3 Kings 19: 12). He revealed to the prophet, that He would preserve seven thousand faithful servants who had not worshipped Baal.
Later, the Lord commanded Elijah to anoint Elisha into prophetic service.
Because of his fiery zeal for the Glory of God the Prophet Elijah was taken up alive into Heaven in a fiery chariot.
The Prophet Elisha received Elijah's mantle, and a double portion of his prophetic spirit.
According to Tradition of Holy Church, Prophet Elijah will be the Forerunner of the Dread Second Coming of Christ.
He will proclaim the truth of Christ, urge all to repentance, and will be slain by the Antichrist.
This will be a sign of the end of the world.

The life of the holy Prophet Elijah is recorded in the Old Testament books (3 Kings; 4 Kings; Sirach/Ecclesiastes 48: 1-15; 1 Maccabees 2: 58).
At the time of the Transfiguration, the Prophet Elijah conversed with the Savior upon Mount Tabor (Mt. 17: 3; Mark 9: 4; Luke. 9: 30).
Orthodox Christians of all times, and in all places, have venerated the Prophet Elijah for centuries. The first church in Russia, built at Kiev under Prince Igor, was named for the Prophet Elijah. After her Baptism St Olga (July 14) built a temple of the holy Prophet Elijah in his native region, at the village of Vibuta.
In iconography the Prophet Elijah is depicted ascending to Heaven in a fiery chariot, surrounded with flames, and harnessed to four winged horses.
We pray to him for deliverance from drought, and to ask for seasonable weather.
Elijah (Elias), Prophet (RM) 8th century BC. The eventful life of Elijah, the great prophet of the Old Testament, is recorded for us in 1 and 2 Kings. He was a real but almost legendary figure, like Saint John the Baptist: hairy, dressed in animal skins, coming out of the wilderness to terrify the whole country with his announcements of impending calamity, and then disappearing.   Elijah lived during the reign of Ahab, at a time when the Jewish people had again turned to pagan gods. He appeared before Ahab and announced an extended drought. Yet no one repented, so he hid himself by the brook Cherith, where he was fed by ravens each morning and evening.
When the brook dried up, Elijah moved to Zarephath, where he met a poor widow preparing a last meal for herself and her son before they died of starvation. Nevertheless, the widow extended hospitality to the limit of her ability and was rewarded. God, through Elijah, constantly and miraculously renewed her supply of oil and grain. When her son died, Elijah restored him to life.
After three years of drought, God ordered Elijah to return to Ahab. During Elijah's absence, Ahab's wife, Jezebel, had ordered that all prophets of God by executed. Obadiah, one of the king's ministers and a minor prophet, hid 50 of them in a cave, where he met Elijah on his way to Ahab's court. Obadiah panicked when Elijah commanded him to tell Ahab that "Elijah is here" because there was a standing order to kill every prophet on sight. Nevertheless, Obadiah took Elijah to his king.
Ahab accused Elijah of bringing trouble to Israel. Elijah replied: "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Ba'alam."
Then he proposed a public contest: "Gather all Israel on Mount Carmel, and 450 prophets of Baal." The king agreed, so the met at the appointed time and place. Elijah admonished the people to choose between Baal and Yahweh--whichever proved stronger. The prophet of God and the prophets of Baal would each chose a bullock, cut it, and lay it on wood. The true God would be the one who would cause a holocaust.  The prophets of Baal began first. For days and nights they prayed and danced about and leapt upon the altar, until Elijah derided them: "Cry louder. Perhaps your god is asleep and needs to be awakened." Baal prophets redoubled their efforts and added self mutilation. But nothing happened. Then it was Elijah's turn. He calmly prepared the altar, slaughtered the bullock, set the wood, drenched everything with water, and then prayed. At once a fire came and consumed everything.  And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and prayed to the living God. Elijah rounded up the priests of Baal, took them to the brook of Kishon, and killed them.
Then he went to Ahab and said, "Eat and drink, for there will be an abundance of rain." And it rained.
Jezebel was furious when Ahab told her what had happened.
She sent a message to Elijah that she was mete out to him the following day the same fate he gave to Baal's priests. Elijah fled into the desert, where he was fed by an angel. He set out for Mount Horeb (Sinai) by walking forty days without food or rest. Elijah was near despair when God visited him on a mountainside: "And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke the rocks into pieces before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind was an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, a still small voice" that told him to anoint Elisha as a prophet. He found Elisha plowing a field. "Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah."
Before Elijah was taken up by God in a whirlwind, he asked what he should do for his successor Elisha. Elisha responded: "I pray, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me." And so it was. As they walked together along the Jordan "there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up in a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and cried, 'My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof...' He took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from the saint, and went back..."
Elijah's association with Mount Carmel is the reason that the Carmelite Order liturgically commemorates this feast of it principal patron (Benedictines, Encyclopedia).
9th v. BC June 14  Elisha The Holy Prophet was a native of the village of Abelmaum, near Jordan. By the command of the Lord he was called to prophetic service by the holy Prophet Elias (July 20).  He spent more than 65 years in prophetic service, under six Israelite kings (from Ahab to Joash). While Elisha lived, he did not tremble before any prince, and no word could overcome him (Sirach 48: 13 ["Sirach" is called "Ecclesiasticus" in Catholic Bibles ]).
June 27
Elisha, the Prophet

-626 bc Prophet Zephaniah eliminate idol-worship prophesied calamities to come for people of Judea and Gaza, Ascalon, Crete, and against Moabites, Ammonites and Ninevites contemporary of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Prophetess Oldama
If 626 BC is accepted, then the ministries of Jeremiah and Zephaniah began in the same year" (Homer Hailey).
Prophet Zephaniah {means "defended by God."} { (Hebrew -- Tsephan-yah) means "Yahweh hides" or "Yahweh has hidden." (Sophonias) {(means "the Lord is my secret")} was a contemporary of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Prophetess Oldama.
He was from the tribe of Simeon, and was the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament.
600 B.C. May 01 The Holy Prophet Jeremiah, one of four great Old Testament prophets regarded as a wonderworker


1350 B.C.Job The righteous (whose name means "persecuted"), God's faithful servant, was the perfect image of every virtue
The son of Zarah and Bossorha (Job 42), Job was a fifth-generation descendent of Abraham. He was a truthful, righteous, patient and pious man who abstained from every evil thing. Job was very rich and blessed by God in all things, as was no other son of Ausis (his country, which lay between Idoumea and Arabia). However, divine condescension permitted him to be tested.  Job lost his children, his wealth, his glory, and every consolation all at once. His entire body became a terrible wound covered with boils. Yet he remained steadfast and patient in the face of his misfortune for seven years, always giving thanks to God.
Later, God restored his former prosperity, and he had twice as much as before. Job lived for 170 years after his misfortune, completing his earthly life in 1350 B.C. at the age of 240. Some authorities say that Job's afflictions lasted only one year, and that afterwards he lived for 140 years, reaching the age of 210.

Job's explanations are among the most poetic writings in the Old Testament book which bears his name. It is one of the most edifying portions of Holy Scripture. Job teaches us that we must endure life's adversities patiently and with trust in God. As St Anthony the Great (January 17) says, without temptations, it is impossible for the faithful to be saved.

The Orthodox Church reads the book of Job, the first of the seven wisdom books of the Old Testament, during Holy Week, drawing a parallel between Job and Christ as righteous men who suffered through no fault of their own. God allowed Satan to afflict Job so that his faithfulness would be proven. Christ, the only sinless one, suffered voluntarily for our sins. The Septuagint text of Job 42:17 says that Job "will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up." This passage is read on Great and Holy Friday, when the composite Gospel at Vespers speaks of the tombs being opened at the moment the Savior died on the Cross, and the bodies of the saints were raised, and they appeared to many after Christ's Resurrection (Mt.27:52
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9th v. BC Elisha The Holy Prophet was a native of the village of Abelmaum, near Jordan. By the command of the Lord he was called to prophetic service by the holy Prophet Elias (July 20).  He spent more than 65 years in prophetic service, under six Israelite kings (from Ahab to Joash). While Elisha lived, he did not tremble before any prince, and no word could overcome him (Sirach 48: 13 ["Sirach" is called "Ecclesiasticus" in Catholic Bibles ]).
When it became time for the Prophet Elias to be taken up to Heaven, he said to Elisha, "Ask what shall I do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha boldly asked for a double portion of the grace of God: "Let there be a double portion of your spirit upon me." The Prophet Elias said, "You have asked a hard thing; if you see me when I am taken from you, then so shall it be for you; but if you don't see me, it wilt not be" (4 [2] Kings 2: 12). As they went along the way talking, there appeared a fiery chariot and horses and separated them both. Elisha cried out, "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horse!" (4 Kings 2: 12). Picking up the mantle of his teacher which fell from the sky, Elisha received the power and prophetic gift of Elias. He spent more than 65 years in prophetic service, under six Israelite kings (from Ahab to Joash). While Elisha lived, he did not tremble before any prince, and no word could overcome him (Sirach 48: 13 ["Sirach" is called "Ecclesiasticus" in Catholic Bibles ]).

The holy prophet worked numerous miracles. He divided the waters of the Jordan, having struck it with the mantle of the Prophet Elias; he made the waters of a Jericho spring fit for drinking; he saved the armies of the kings of Israel and Judah that stood in an arid wilderness by bringing forth abundant water by his prayer; he delivered a poor widow from death by starvation through a miraculous increase of oil in a vessel. The Shunamite woman showing hospitality to the prophet was gladdened by the birth of a son through his prayer, and when the child died, he was raised back to life by the prophet. The Syrian military-commander Namaan was healed from leprosy but the prophet's servant Gehazi was afflicted since he disobeyed the prophet and took money from Namaan on the sly.

Elisha predicted to the Israelite king Joash the victory over his enemies, and by the power of his prayer he worked many other miracles (4 Kings 3-13). The holy Prophet Elisha died in old age at Samaria. "In his life he worked miracles, and at death his works were marvellous" (Sir. 48: 15). A year after his death, a corpse was thrown into the prophet's grave. As soon as the dead man touched Elisha's bones, he came to life and stood up (4 Kings 13: 20-21). The Prophet Elisha and his teacher, the Prophet Elias, left no books behind them, since their prophetic preaching was oral. Jesus, son of Sirach, praised both great prophets (Sir. 48:1-15).
John of Damascus composed a canon in honor of the Prophet Elisha, and at Constantinople a church was built in his honor.
Julian the Apostate (361-363) gave orders to burn the relics of the Prophet Elisha, Abdia (Obadiah) and John the Forerunner, but the holy relics were preserved by believers, and part of them were transferred to Alexandria.
In the twentieth century, the humble priest Nicholas Planas had a great veneration for the Prophet Elisha,
and was accounted worthy to see him in visions.
- 650 bc The Holy Prophet Habakkuk 8th of the Twelve Minor Prophets foresaw destruction of Jerusalem Temple, the Babylonian Captivity and later return of captives to their native land.
descended from Tribe of Simeon he prophesied  650 B.C.

During the war with the Babylonians the prophet withdrew to Arabia, where the following miracle occurred.
When he was bringing dinner to the reapers, he met an angel of the Lord, and instantly by the strength of his spirit he was transported to Babylon, where at the time the Prophet Daniel was languishing in prison.
The food intended for the reapers assuaged the hunger of the exhausted Prophet Daniel (Dan. 14:33-37).


After the end of the war with the Babylonians, the Prophet Habakkuk returned to his homeland and died at a great old age. His relics were found at the time of Emperor Theodosius he Younger (408-450), together with the relics of the Prophet Micah (August 14).
The Fourth Ode of the Psalter ("O Lord, I have heard thy report, and was afraid...") is based on Habakkuk 3:2-19.
Habakkuk
    The short Book of Habakkuk is very carefully constructed. It opens with a dialogue between the prophet and his God; twice the prophet complains, twice the divine oracle answers, 1:2-2:4. The second oracle calls down five curses on the wicked oppressor, 2:5-20. Next, in a psalm, the prophet celebrates the final triumph of God, ch. 3. The authorship of this last chapter has been disputed, but without it the composition would lose its symmetry. The musical instructions that precede, punctuate and follow the psalm merely prove that it was used liturgically. That the whole book was so used is doubtful; the liturgical quality of its style was probably more imitative than functional.
    The historical context of the prophecy and the identification of the oppressor are both doubtful. The Assyrians, the Chaldaeans, and even Jehoiakim, king of Judah, have been suggested. It seems most likely that the book refers throughout to the Chaldaeans, named in 1:6. God has made use of them to punish his people but they in their turn will be punished for their excessive cruelty, since Yahweh is on the march to save his people; the prophet awaits this intervention with an anxiety that finally gives way to joy. If this interpretation is correct, the book should be dated between the battle of Carchemish in 605 (which made Nebuchadnezzar master of the Middle East) and the first siege of Jerusalem in 597. Thus Habakkuk would be very little later than Nahum and, like him, a contemporary of Jeremiah.

Habakkuk sounds a note new to the teaching of the prophets; he has the temerity to demand an account from God of his ordering of the world. Judah indeed has sinned, but why should a God of holiness, 1:12, with eyes too pure to look at evil, 1:13, choose the savage Chaldaeans to wreak his vengeance? Why must the bad be punished by the worse? Why should he appear to strengthen the arm of injustice?
This is the problem of evil posed at international level and Habakkuk’s dismay is felt by many people today. To them as to him comes the divine answer: by paradoxical ways almighty God prepares the final triumph of justice; trusting in God, the virtuous man’s life will be secure, cf. 2:4, a precious maxim of Habakkuk’s which St Paul will later incorporate into his teaching on faith, Rm 1:17; Ga 3:11; Heb 10:38.
  -626 bc Prophet Zephaniah eliminate idol-worship prophesied calamities to come for people of Judea and Gaza, Ascalon, Crete, and against Moabites, Ammonites and Ninevites contemporary of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Prophetess Oldama
If 626 BC is accepted, then the ministries of Jeremiah and Zephaniah began in the same year" (Homer Hailey).
Prophet Zephaniah {means "defended by God."} { (Hebrew -- Tsephan-yah) means "Yahweh hides" or "Yahweh has hidden." (Sophonias) {(means "the Lord is my secret")} was a contemporary of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Prophetess Oldama.
He was from the tribe of Simeon, and was the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament.

The prophet lived at the royal court, where he preached repentance and helped King Josiah eliminate idol-worship.
He prophesied about the calamities that were to come for the people of Judea and the surrounding regions: Gaza, Ascalon, Crete, and against the Moabites, the Ammonites and the Ninevites.

Zeph. 3:9-20 "speaks of another side of the day of the Lord: It will be a day of blessing after the judgment is complete. A righteous remnant will survive and all who call upon Him, Jew or Gentile, will be blessed" (Expanded Open Bible). Jesus alluded to Zephaniah on two occasions --- Matthew 13:41 (Zeph. 1:3) and Matthew 24:29 (Zeph. 1:15). Both of these passages are associated with the second coming of Christ.

Zephaniah was the great, great grandson of Hezekiah, one of the good kings of Judah. King Josiah, yet another great, great grandson of Hezekiah, was on the throne of Judah when Zephaniah prophesied. At this time, Israel, the northern kingdom, no longer existed. It had been taken into captivity by Assyria one hundred years earlier.
Assyria and Egypt battled for control of the world. Located right between both of them, Judah was often territory for battles between the two.

Zephaniah and his fellow prophets - possibly Nahum, Habakkuk, and Jeremiah, all of whom lived in Zephaniah's time - assisted King Josiah in leading a spiritual revolution. He removed idol worship, repaired the temple of God, and brought back worship of the true God.
However, most of the people repented only outwardly and when Josiah was killed in battle, they returned to idol worship.

Zephaniah
       According to the title of this short book, the prophet Zephaniah worked in the reign of Josiah, 640-609. His attacks on alien manners, 1:8, and on the worship of false gods, 1:4-5, his rebuke of court officials, 1:8, his silence about the king, all point to a period before the religious reform, during the minority of Josiah, between 640 and 630, thus immediately before the beginning of the ministry of Jeremiah.
Judah, robbed of part of its territory by Sennacherib, has experienced Assyrian rule, and the wicked reigns of Manasseh and Amon have favoured religious disorders. The increasing weakness of Assyria now raises hopes of national recovery accompanied by religious reform.
  This book falls into four short sections: the day of Yahweh, 1:2-2:3; oracles against the nations 2:4-15; against Jerusalem, 3:1-8; promises, 3:9-20.
Unjustifiable attempts have been made to exclude certain oracles against the nations and all the promises of the fourth section. Suffice it to admit that the prophecies of pagan conversion, 2:11 and 3:9-10, alien to the context, seem to be inspired by the Book of Consolation, Is 40-55, and that the concluding verses, 3:18b-20, are best understood. against the background of the Exile.
  The message of Zephaniah is, in brief, a prophecy of the day of Yahweh (see Amos), of a catastrophe affecting not only Judah but also the nations. Judah is condemned for religious and moral corruption springing from pride and rebelliousness, 3:1,11. Zephaniah has a deep appreciation of sin (an anticipation of Jeremiah); it is an offence against the person of the living God.
    The punishing of the nations should serve as a warning, 3:7, to reduce God’s people to obedience and humility, 2:3; salvation is promised to only a humble and submissive ‘remnant’, 3:12-13. This is as far as the messianism of Zephaniah goes, but it is enough to reveal the spiritual nature of the promises he makes.
      The short book of Zephaniah has had a restricted influence and is only once used in the New Testament, Mt 13:4 1. But the description of the day of Yahweh, 1:14-18, inspired the description by Joel, and, in the Middle Ages, the opening words of the Dies Irae.

600 B.C. The Holy Prophet Jeremiah, one of the four great Old Testament prophets regarded as a wonderworker
In Ægypto sancti Jeremíæ Prophétæ, qui, a pópulo lapídibus óbrutus, apud Taphnas
occúbuit, ibíque sepúltus est; ad cujus sepúlcrum fidéles (ut refert sanctus Epiphánius) supplicáre consuevérunt, índeque sumpto púlvere, áspidum mórsibus medéntur.
    In Egypt, St. Jeremias, prophet, who was stoned to death by the people at Taphnas, where he was buried.  St. Epiphanius tells that the faithful were accustomed to pray at his grave, and to take away from it dust to heal those who were stung by serpents.
Son of the priest Helkiah from the city of Anathoth near Jerusalem.  He lived 600 years before the Birth of Christ, under the Israelite king Josiah and four of his successors. He was called to prophetic service at the age of fifteen, when the Lord revealed to him that even before his birth the Lord had chosen him to be a prophet. Jeremiah refused, citing his youth and lack of skill at speaking, but the Lord promised to be always with him and to watch over him.
He touched the mouth of the chosen one and said, "Behold, I have put My words into your mouth. Behold, I have appointed you this day over nations and kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to rebuild, and to plant" (Jer. 1:9-10).
From that time Jeremiah prophesied for twenty-three years, denouncing the Jews for abandoning the true God and worshipping idols, predicting sorrows and devastating wars. He stood by the gates of the city, and at the entrance to the Temple, everywhere where the people gathered, and he exhorted them with imprecations and often with tears.
The people, however, mocked and abused him, and they even tried to kill him.

Depicting for the Jews their impending enslavement to the king of Babylon, Jeremiah first placed on his own neck a wooden, and then an iron yoke, and thus he went about among the people. Enraged at the dire predictions of the prophet, the Jewish elders threw the Prophet Jeremiah into a pit filled with horrid, slimy creatures, where he almost died. Through the intercession of the God-fearing royal official Habdemelek, the prophet was pulled out of the pit, but he did not cease his prophecies, and for this he was carted off to prison.
Under the Jewish king Zedekiah his prophecy was fulfilled.
Nebuchadnezzar came, slaughtered many people, carried off a remnant into captivity, and Jerusalem was pillaged and destroyed.  Nebuchadnezzar released the prophet from prison and permitted him to live where he wanted.

The prophet remained at the ruins of Jerusalem and bewailed his nation's misfortune. According to Tradition, the Prophet Jeremiah took the Ark of the Covenant with the Tablets of the Law and hid it in one of the caves of Mount Nabath (Nebo), so that the Jews could no longer find it (2 Mac. 2).  Afterwards, a new Ark of the Covenant was fashioned, but it lacked the glory of the first.

Among the Jews remaining in their fatherland there soon arose internecine clashes: Hodoliah, Nebuchadnezzar's viceroy, was murdered. The Jews, fearing the wrath of Babylon, decided to flee into Egypt. The Prophet Jeremiah disagreed with their intention, predicting that the punishment which they feared would befall them in Egypt. The Jews would not listen to the prophet, however, and taking him along by force, they went into Egypt and settled in the city of Tathnis. There the prophet lived for four years and was respected by the Egyptians, because by his prayers he killed crocodiles and other creatures infesting these parts.

When Jeremiah prophesied that the King of Babylon would invade Egypt and annihilate the Jews living there, the Jews murdered him.  In that very same year the saint's prophecy was fulfilled.
There is a tradition that 250 years later, Alexander the Great transported the relics of the holy Prophet Jeremiah to Alexandria.

The Prophet Jeremiah wrote his Book of Prophecies and also the Book of Lamentations about the desolation of Jerusalem and the Exile.  The times in which he lived and prophesied are described in 4/2 Kings (Ch. 23-25) and in the Second Book of Chronicles (36:12) and in 2 Maccabbees (Ch. 2).

In the Gospel of Matthew it is said that the betrayal of Judas was foretold by the Prophet Jeremiah, "And they took thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom the sons of Israel had set a price, and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me" (Mt. 27:9-10). Perhaps Jeremiah 32:6-15 is meant.
Even after his death, the Prophet Jeremiah was regarded as a wonderworker.
Dust from his tomb was believed to cure snake-bite, and many Christians pray to him for this purpose.