SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:6
Hice talar los gentiles; sus castillos están asolados; hice desiertas sus calles, hasta no quedar quien pase; sus ciudades están asoladas hasta no quedar hombre, hasta no quedar morador.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 3:6
Verse 6. I have cut off the nations] Syria, Israel, and those referred to, Isa. xxxvi. 18, 20. - Newcome.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. I have cut off the nations , etc.] 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” f103 ; 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - The holy God hates sin most in those nearest to him. A sinful state is and will be, a woful state. Yet they had the tokens of God's presence and all the advantages of knowing his will, with the strongest reason to do it; still they persisted in disobedience. Alas, that men ofte are more active in doing wickedness than believers are in doing good.
Original Hebrew
הכרתי 3772 גוים 1471 נשׁמו 8074 פנותם 6438 החרבתי 2717 חוצותם 2351 מבלי 1097 עובר 5674 נצדו 6658 עריהם 5892 מבלי 1097 אישׁ 376 מאין 369 יושׁב׃ 3427
