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Zephaniah 1:7 (NIV)
7 Be silent before the Sovereign LORD,
for the day of the LORD is near.
The LORD has prepared a sacrifice;
he has consecrated those he has invited.
12 At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps
and punish those who are complacent,
who are like wine left on its dregs,
who think, ‘The LORD will do nothing,
either good or bad.’
13 Their wealth will be plundered,
their houses demolished.
They will build houses
but not live in them;
they will plant vineyards
but not drink the wine.
14 “The great day of the LORD is near—
near and coming quickly.
Listen! The cry on the day of the LORD will be bitter,
the shouting of the warrior there.
15 That day will be a day of wrath,
a day of distress and anguish,
a day of trouble and ruin,
a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness,
16 a day of trumpet and battle cry
against the fortified cities
and against the corner towers.
17 I will bring distress on the people
and they will walk like blind men,
because they have sinned against the LORD.
Their blood will be poured out like dust
and their entrails like filth.
18 Neither their silver nor their gold
will be able to save them
on the day of the LORD’S wrath.
In the fire of his jealousy
the whole world will be consumed,
for he will make a sudden end
of all who live in the earth.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 7-13
God’s day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is a sacrifice to
the justice of God. The Jewish royal family shall be reckoned with for their
pride and vanity; and those that leap on the threshold, invading their
neighbours’ rights, and seizing their possessions. The trading people and the
rich merchants are called to account. Secure and careless people are reckoned
with. They are secure and easy; they say in their heart, the Lord will not do
good, neither will he do evil; that is, they deny his dispensing rewards and
punishments. But in the day of the Lord’s judgment, it will clearly appear that
those who perish, fall a sacrifice to Divine justice for breaking God’s law, and
because they have no interest by faith in the Redeemer’s atoning sacrifice.
VERSES 14-18
This warning of approaching destruction, is enough to make the sinners in Zion
tremble; it refers to the great day of the Lord, the day in which he will show
himself by taking vengeance on them. This day of the Lord is very near; it is a
day of God’s wrath, wrath to the utmost. It will be a day of trouble and
distress to sinners. Let them not be laid asleep by the patience of God. What is
a man profited if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? And what shall
a man give in exchange for his soul? Let us flee from the wrath to come, and
choose the good part that shall never be taken from us; then we shall be
prepared for every event; nothing shall separate us from the love of God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
See also Zechariah 1:7-17 and Zechariah 2:1-5; 5:1-4