SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:10
Y habrá en aquel día, dice el SEÑOR, voz de clamor desde la puerta del pescado, y aullido desde la escuela, y gran quebrantamiento desde los collados.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 1:10
Verse 10. A cry from the fish-gate] This gate, which is mentioned Neh. iii. 3, was opposite to Joppa; and perhaps the way in which the news came of the irruption of the Chaldean army, the great crashing from the hills. The second] Or second city, may here mean a part of Jerusalem, mentioned 2 Kings xxii. 14; 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord , etc.] In the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, when he shall punish the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans; which, as well as what follows, shall surely come to pass, because the Lord has said it; for not one word of his shall pass away, but all be fulfilled: [that there shall be] the noise of a cry from the fish gate ; a gate of the city of Jerusalem so called, which suffered as the rest in the destruction of the city by the Babylonians, and, after the captivity, was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah, ( Nehemiah 3:3) according to Jerom, it was on the west side of the city, and led to Diospolis and Joppa; and was the nearest road to the Mediterranean sea, or any of the roads to Jerusalem, from whence fish were brought, and brought in by this gate; and very probably the fish market was near it, from whence it had its name; though Cocceius places it in the north corner of the east side of the city, and so was nearer Jordan, the sea of Tiberias, and the city of Tyre, from whence fish might be brought hither, and sold, ( Nehemiah 13:16) however, be it where it will, the enemy it seems would attack it, and enter in by it; upon which a hideous cry would be made, either by the assailants, the Chaldeans, at their attack upon it, and entrance through it; or by the inhabitants of it, or that were nearest to it, upon their approach, or both: and an howling from the second ; either from the second gate; and if the fish gate is the same with the first gate, ( Zechariah 14:10) then this may be pertinently called the second. Jarchi calls it the bird gate, which was the second to the fish gate. So the Targum, “from the bird, or the bird gate;” though some copies of it read, from the tower or high fortress: or else this designs the second wall, and the gate in that which answered to the fish gate; for Jerusalem was encompassed with three walls; the fish gate was in the outermost, and this was in the second, to which the Chaldeans came next, and occasioned a dreadful howling and lamentation in the people that dwelt near it. Kimchi interprets it of the school or university that was in Jerusalem; the same word is rendered the cottage in which Huldah the prophetess lived, ( 2 Kings 22:14) and there, by the Targum, “the house of doctrine or instruction;” so then the sense is, a grievous outcry would be heard from the university or school of the prophets; the enemy having entered it, and were slaying the students, or seizing them in order to carry them captive: and a great crashing from the hills ; either that were in Jerusalem, as Mount Zion and Moriah, on which the temple stood; or those that were round about it, as Gareb, and Goath, and others; though some interpret this of the houses of nobles that stood in the higher parts of the city, where there would be a shivering, a breaking to pieces, as the word signifies, of doors and windows without, and of furniture within.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-13 - God's day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is 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 secur and easy; they say in their heart, the Lord will not do good, neithe will he do evil; that is, they deny his dispensing rewards an punishments. But in the day of the Lord's judgment, it will clearl 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.
Original Hebrew
והיה 1961 ביום 3117 ההוא 1931 נאם 5002 יהוה 3068 קול 6963 צעקה 6818 משׁער 8179 הדגים 1709 ויללה 3215 מן 4480 המשׁנה 4932 ושׁבר 7667 גדול 1419 מהגבעות׃ 1389
