Zephaniah 1:8

Zephaniah 1:8

6 ^aThose who have turned back from following the Lord,
And ^bhave not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.”

7 ^aBe silent in the presence of the Lord God;
^bFor the day of the Lord is at hand,
For ^cthe Lord has prepared a sacrifice;
He has¹ invited His guests.

8 “And it shall be,
In the day of the Lord’s sacrifice,
That I will punish ^athe princes and the king’s children,
And all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.

9 In the same day I will punish
All those who ^aleap over the threshold,
Who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

10 “And there shall be on that day,” says the Lord,
“The sound of a mournful cry from ^athe Fish Gate,
A wailing from the Second Quarter,
And a loud crashing from the hills.

11 ^aWail, you inhabitants of¹ Maktesh!
For all the merchant people are cut down;
All those who handle money are cut off.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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the princes—who ought to have been an example of good to others, but were ringleaders in all evil.

the king's children—fulfilled on Zedekiah's children (Jeremiah 39:6); and previously, on Jehoahaz and Eliakim, the sons of Josiah (II Kings 23:31, II Kings 23:36; II Chronicles 36:6; compare also II Kings 20:18; II Kings 21:13). Huldah the prophetess (II Kings 22:20) intimated that which Zephaniah now more expressly foretells.

all such as are clothed with strange apparel—the princes or courtiers who attired themselves in costly garments, imported from abroad; partly for the sake of luxury, and partly to ingratiate themselves with foreign great nations whose costume as well as their idolatries they imitated, [CALVIN]; whereas in costume, as in other respects, God would have them to be separate from the nations. GROTIUS refers the "strange apparel" to garments forbidden by the law, for example, men's garments worn by women, and vice versa, a heathen usage in the worship of Mars and Venus (Deuteronomy 22:5).

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