Zephaniah 1:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord Keep silence in token of an awful reverence toward God. For the day of the Lord is at hand Now he is coming to execute his judgments upon the land. Humble thyself under his mighty hand, without repining or murmuring at his corrections, which thy sins do so justly deserve. For the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice The slaughter of the wicked is called a sacrifice, because it is, in some sense, an atonement to God's justice. He hath bid his guests This is an allusion to the custom of those who offered sacrifices, which was to invite their friends to partake of the feasts which accompanied them. So here God is said to invite his guests, that is, the Babylonians, who were to reap the spoils of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem, and of the desolation of Judea: or, as some explain it, the guests may mean ravenous birds, wild beasts, and dogs, collected to devour the carcasses of the slain.