Zephaniah 1:13
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What does Zephaniah 1:13 mean?
Therefore their goods shall become a booty
To the enemy; the riches they trusted in, and thought themselves
so secure of; and therefore denied divine Providence, which ought
to be depended upon amidst the greatest affluence; or otherwise
the Lord has various ways by which he can soon strip men of all
their enjoyments, and dispose of them to others: and their
houses a desolation;
be pulled down by the enemy; or left uninhabited, they being
killed or carried captive, even their whole families: they
shall also build houses, but not inhabit [them];
not long, at least; not always, as they expected, and promised
themselves when they built them: and they shall plant
vineyards, and not drink the wine thereof:
but before the vines planted by them bring forth grapes, and
these are pressed, and wine made of them, they should fall into
the hands of the enemy, who would drink it, and not they; and all
this agreeably to what was threatened them in the law of Moses,
which they ought to have regarded, ( Deuteronomy
28:30 ) .
