Sofonías 1:3

3 Arrasaré con personas y animales por igual;
arrasaré con las aves de los cielos y con los peces del mar.
Reduciré a los malvados a un montón de escombros
y borraré a la humanidad de la faz de la tierra —dice 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 El Señor
le dio este mensaje a Sofonías, cuando Josías, hijo de Amón, era rey de Judá. Sofonías fue hijo de Cusi, hijo de Gedalías, hijo de Amarías, hijo de Ezequías.

2 Juicio venidero contra Judá
«Arrasaré con todo lo que hay
sobre la faz de la tierra —dice el Señor
—.

3 Arrasaré con personas y animales por igual;
arrasaré con las aves de los cielos y con los peces del mar.
Reduciré a los malvados a un montón de escombros
y borraré a la humanidad de la faz de la tierra —dice el Señor
—.

4 Aplastaré a Judá y a Jerusalén con mi puño
y destruiré todo rastro del culto a Baal.
Acabaré con todos los sacerdotes idólatras,
para que se borre hasta el recuerdo de ellos.

5 Pues ellos suben a las azoteas
y se postran ante el sol, la luna y las estrellas.
Dicen seguir al Señor
,
pero al mismo tiempo rinden culto a Moloc.