Verse 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 weight of divine rage. The simple statement ’they have sinned’ is sufficient." [Note: Motyer, p. 924.]
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