Therefore; as a punishment for other sins, so for this secure, atheistical denial of Providence; though they have denied, they shall feel, and confess, that the evil they suffer is both just, and from my hand too. Their goods; stores in their shops and warehouses, furniture in their chambers, and wardrobes. A booty; a prey divided among the Babylonish soldiers, invading, prevailing, wasting villages and cities. Their houses a desolation; that they may remember the curse threatened in the law, executed on them, and acknowledge that he who gave the law rules by it. Build houses, but not inhabit them, & c.; according to that Deuteronomy 28:30,39.
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Zephaniah 1:13
13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.