Sofonías 1:3

3 Eliminaré hombres y animales, eliminaré las aves del cielo y los peces del mar, y haré tropezar a los impíos; extirparé al hombre de la faz de la tierradeclara el SEÑOR.

Sofonías 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

Zephaniah 1:3

I will consume man and beast
Wicked men for their sins, and beasts for the sins of men; and, as a punishment for them, the creatures whom they have abused to the gratifying of their lusts: I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea;
so that there shall be none for the use of man, which are both delicate food; the latter were not consumed at the general deluge. Kimchi thinks this is said by way of hyperbole; but it is possible for these to be consumed, as men by famine, pestilence, and captivity, and beasts by murrain; so the fowls of the air by the noisomeness of it; and the fishes of the sea, that is, such as were in the sea of Tiberias, and other lakes in Judea, by the stagnation of the waters, or by some disease sent among them; unless wicked men, comparable to them, are intended; though they are expressly mentioned, both before and after: and the stumblingblocks with the wicked:
that is, idols, which are stumblingblocks to men, and cause them to offend and fall; these, together with those that made them, and the priests that sacrificed unto them, and the people that worshipped them, should be consumed from off the land: or, "the stumblingblocks of the wicked"; for (ta) is sometimes used as a sign of the genitive case, as Noldius ^F9 observes; and so the Vulgate Latin version and the Targum render it: and I will cut off men from off the land, saith the Lord:
this is repeated for the certainty of it; or else this designs another sort of men from the former; and that, as before wicked men are designed, here such as are not perfectly wicked, as Kimchi observes; yea, the righteous should be carried captive, so that the land should be left desolate, without men, good or bad; for even good men may fall in a general calamity, and be cut off from the land, though not from the Lord. The Septuagint indeed here render it wicked men. The phrase, "saith the Lord", is twice expressed, for the certain confirmation of it; for it may be concluded it will be, since God has said it again and again that it shall be.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 122.

Sofonías 1:3 In-Context

1 Palabra del SEÑOR que vino a Sofonías, hijo de Cusi, hijo de Gedalías, hijo de Amarías, hijo de Ezequías, en los días de Josías, hijo de Amón, rey de Judá:

2 Eliminaré por completo todo de la faz de la tierradeclara el SEÑOR.

3 Eliminaré hombres y animales, eliminaré las aves del cielo y los peces del mar, y haré tropezar a los impíos; extirparé al hombre de la faz de la tierradeclara el SEÑOR.

4 Extenderé mi mano contra Judá y contra todos los habitantes de Jerusalén; cortaré de este lugar al remanente de Baal y los nombres de los ministros idólatras junto con sus sacerdotes;

5 a los que se postran en las terrazas ante el ejército del cielo, a los que se postran y juran por el SEÑOR y juran también por Milcom ,