Zephaniah 1:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

I will consume. Note the Figure of speech Anaphora. Three times repeated.

man. Hebrew. 'adam with. eth. humanity App-14.

and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6), for emphasis.

stumblingblocks. ruin. Occurs only here, and Isaiah 3:6. Figure of speech Metalepsis. "Stumblingblocks" put first for the idols and idolatry, and then idolatry put for the ruin brought about by them.

with. together with. Hebrew. 'eth.

the wicked. the lawless ones. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.

Zephaniah 1:3

3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocksa with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.