Sofonías 3:6

6 Yo he exterminado naciones; sus torreones están en ruinas, hice desiertas sus calles, sin que nadie pase por ellas; sus ciudades están desoladas, sin hombre alguno, sin ningún habitante.

Sofonías 3:6 Meaning and Commentary

Zephaniah 3:6

I have cut off the nations
Utterly destroyed them, as the Philistines, Moabites, Ethiopians, and Assyrians, as in the preceding chapters; all which were done before the coming of Christ in the flesh; and by which instances the Jews should have took warning, lest by their sins they should provoke the Lord to destroy their nation, city, and temple: their towers are desolate;
built on their frontiers, or on the walls of their cities, to defend them; these were demolished, and laid waste, and of no use: or, "their corners" ^F2; towers being usually built on the angles or corners of walls. Some interpret this of their princes, nobles, and great men, who were destroyed; see ( Zechariah 10:4 ) : I made their streets waste, that none passeth by;
the streets of their cities, the houses being pulled down by the enemy, the rubbish of them lay in the streets, so that there was no passing for any; and indeed, the houses being demolished, the streets were no more in form: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is
none inhabitant;
the houses being burnt with fire, or pulled down, and plundered of the goods and substance in them, and the people cut off by famine, pestilence, or sword; and the rest carried captive, there was scarce a man or inhabitant left; so general was the destruction.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (Mtwnp) "anguli earum", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Cocceius, Burkius.

Sofonías 3:6 In-Context

4 Sus profetas son temerarios, hombres pérfidos; sus sacerdotes han profanado el santuario, han violado la ley.

5 El SEÑOR es justo en medio de ella; no cometerá injusticia. Cada mañana saca a luz su juicio, nunca falta; pero el injusto no conoce la verguenza.

6 Yo he exterminado naciones; sus torreones están en ruinas, hice desiertas sus calles, sin que nadie pase por ellas; sus ciudades están desoladas, sin hombre alguno, sin ningún habitante.

7 Dije: "Ciertamente me temerás, aceptarás corrección." Entonces no será destruida su morada a pesar de todo lo que yo había determinado sobre ella; pero ellos se apresuraron a corromper todas sus acciones.

8 Por tanto, esperadmedeclara el SEÑOR hasta el día en que me levante como testigo, porque mi decisión es reunir a las naciones, juntar a los reinos, para derramar sobre ellos mi indignación, todo el ardor de mi ira; porque por el fuego de mi celo toda la tierra será consumida.