Zephaniah 1:16-18 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14-18

§ 5. To arouse the self-confident sinners, the prophet here enlarges upon the near approach and terrible nature of this coming judgment. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:16

A day of the trumpet and alarm. "Alarm" means "the sound of alarm." Among the Jews trumpets were used to announce the festivals ( Numbers 29:1 ), and to give the signal for battle or of the approach of an enemy ( Jeremiah 4:5 , Jeremiah 4:19 ; Ezekiel 33:4 ). Here it is the signal of destruction ( Amos 2:2 ). The fenced cities. The strongest fortresses shall feel the irresistible attack ( Micah 5:11 ). The high towers. These are the turrets built at the angles of the walls... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:17

In this storming of cities and universal ruin, sinners shall perish without hope. I will bring distress upon men. I will drive them into the utmost straits (comp. Deuteronomy 28:52 , Deuteronomy 28:53 ). They shall walk like blind men. Not knowing where they go in their terror and confusion, seeking a way of escape and finding none (see Deuteronomy 28:29 , on which this passage is founded; comp. Job 5:14 ; Isaiah 59:10 ). Because they have sinned, as shown in vers. 4-12. Their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver, etc. They cannot bribe this enemy; their wealth cannot win for them immunity ( Isaiah 13:17 ; Ezekiel 7:19 ). The fire of his jealousy ( Zephaniah 3:8 ). The whole earth (for, as we have seen in Zephaniah 1:2 , Zephaniah 1:3 , the judgment is universal) shall be punished in the wrath of the Lord, who will not have the honour which is due to him given to any other. He shall make even a speedy riddance; more closely, he shall make an end, yea, a speedy end ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:16

A day of the trumpet and alarm - o that is, of the loud blast of the trumpet, which sounds alarm and causes it. The word is especially the shrill loud noise of the trumpet (for sacred purposes in Israel itself, as ruling all the movements of the tabernacle and accompanying their feasts); then also of the “battle cry.” They had not listened to the voice of the trumpet, as it called them to holy service; now they shall hear “the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God” 1 Thessalonians... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring distress upon men - I will hem them in, in anguish on all sides. God Himself shall meet them with His terrors, wherever they turn. “I will hem them in, that they may find it so” .That they shall walk like blind men - Utterly bereft of counsel, seeing no more than the blind which way to turn, grasping blindly and franticly at anything, and going on headlong to their own destruction. So God forewarned them in the law; “Thou shalt grope at noon day, as the blind gropeth in darkness”... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath - Gain unjustly gotten was the cause of their destruction. For, as Ezekiel closes the like description; “They shall cast their silver into the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they shall not satisfy their souls nor fill their bowels: “because it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity”... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:14-16

Zephaniah 1:14-16. The great day of the Lord is near The time of God’s executing his terrible judgments is nigh at hand. Even the voice, &c. The word even is not in the Hebrew. This latter part of the sentence may, it seems, be better rendered thus: The voice of the day of the Lord is bitter, and it vehemently resoundeth there. Or, Then the mighty man crieth out. The general sense is, that great noise, or distraction, should attend the taking of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. That... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:17-18

Zephaniah 1:17-18. I will bring distress, &c., that they shall walk as blind men I will bring them into such straits that they shall no more know whither to turn themselves, or which way to go for safety, than if they were blind: compare Deuteronomy 28:29, and Isaiah 59:10; in both which places the image is heightened by the circumstance of groping, or stumbling, like the blind, even at noon-day. And their blood shall be poured out as dust That is, as if it were of no value at all;... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

1:1-3:8 PUNISHMENT OF SINNERSSins of Jerusalem (1:1-18)The prophet opens with a general statement about judgment that probably comes as no surprise to the people of Jerusalem. He announces that God will destroy sin from the earth (1:1-3). What surprises the hearers is Zephaniah’s assertion that God will destroy them, for they too are sinners (4a). Anti-God practices established by Manasseh still exist, such as the worship of Baal, the worship of the stars and the worship of Milcom (Molech).... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:14-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 1:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 1:18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:14-16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 1:17-18

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

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