Zephaniah 1:16-18 NIV

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:15-16

The prophet wanted to emphasize the danger his complacent hearers faced even more strongly. He described the effects of the day of the Lord on people by using five synonymous word pairs. If would be a day marked by emotional distress and anguish as well as physical destruction and devastation. The prophet described the terror as darkness and gloom, and clouds and blackness. Trumpet blast and battle cry picture the tumult of that day. The fortified cities of Judah would face invasion, and the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:17

The Lord would distress His people so severely that they would grope around as though they were blind. He would do this because they had sinned against Him (cf. Deuteronomy 28:28-29). Their precious blood would lie all over the ground like common dust, and their dead flesh would lie in the streets like putrid, decaying dung."Humans may categorize their sins into the serious, the mediocre, and the insignificant. To Zephaniah (see James 2:10-11) the mere fact of sin excited and merited the whole... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:18

The Judeans would not be able to buy themselves out of their trouble when the Lord poured forth His wrath (cf. Ezekiel 7:19). He would devour the whole earth with the fire of His jealous rage, jealousy provoked by His people’s preference for various forms of idolatry (Zephaniah 1:4-6). He would destroy completely and terribly all the inhabitants of the earth (cf. Zephaniah 1:2-3; cf. Joel 2:1-11).The comprehensive nature of this judgment suggests that at this point the prophet’s perspective... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18

The Day of Jehovah a Day of Judgment for guilty JudahThe prophecy opens with the declaration of universal destruction for all living things. In his way the prophet impresses upon his hearers the completeness and appalling nature of the impending judgment. In the succeeding vv. he defines in detail the character of the punishment and the guilty classes in Judah upon which it will especially fall. It is in keeping with the genius of the Semitic mind thus to pass from the general to the specific.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:14-18

(14-18) The judgment, in reference to its destructive character. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:16

(16) Alarm.—Better, war cry. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:17

(17) Walk like blind men.—i.e., groping about in fancied insecurity. The metaphor is taken from Deuteronomy 28:29. Their blood shall be poured out as recklessly as dust, and their flesh cast aside like the vilest refuse. Compare the sentence on Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 22:19): “He shall be buried with the burial of an ass,” &c. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:18

(18) He shall make even a speedy riddance.—Literally, He shall effect a destruction, yea, a terrible one. Comp. Isaiah 10:23, from which passage this phraseology is probably borrowed. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

THE PROPHET AND THE REFORMERSZephaniah 1:1-18 - Zephaniah 2:3TOWARDS the year 625, when King Josiah had passed out of his minority, and was making his first efforts at religious reform, prophecy, long slumbering, woke again in Israel. Like the king himself, its first heralds were men in their early youth. In 627 Jeremiah calls himself but a boy, and Zephaniah can hardly have been out of his teens. For the sudden outbreak of these young lives there must have been a large reservoir of patience... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Analysis and Annotations CHAPTER 1 The Day of the Lord, the Day of Judgment 1. The judgment of all the world (Zephaniah 1:1-3 ) 2. The judgment will destroy the evildoers in Judah (Zephaniah 1:4-13 ) 3. The day of the Lord (Zephaniah 1:14-18 ) Zephaniah 1:1-3 . The first verse is the superscription, and tells us, as pointed out in the introduction, of the connection of Zephaniah and the date of his prophecy. Then comes the announcement of the judgment. It is to consume all things from... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:15-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zephaniah 1:18

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:14-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:16

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zephaniah 1:18

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:1-18

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Zephaniah 1:1-18

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