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Zephaniah 1:17 KJV
Zephaniah · chapter 1 · verse 17
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.Zephaniah 1:17 · King James Version
Zephaniah 1:17 in context
15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- distresstsârarto cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6887 →
- sinnedchâṭâʼproperly, to missH2398 →
- blooddâmblood of man or an animalH1818 →
- fleshlâchûwmproperly, eatenH3894 →
- walkhâlakto walkH1980 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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Nothing could be expressed with more spirit and life, nor in words more proper to startle and awaken a secure and careless people, than the warning here given to Judah and Jerusalem of the approaching destruction by the Chaldeans.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-18