Zephaniah 1:12

Verse Zephaniah 1:12. I will search Jerusalem with candles] I will make a universal and thorough search.

That are settled on their lees] Those who are careless, satisfied with the goods of this life; who trust in their riches, and are completely irreligious; who, while they acknowledge that there is a God, think, like the Aristotelians, that he is so supremely happy in the contemplation of his own excellences, that he feels it beneath his dignity to concern himself with the affairs of mortals.