Zephaniah 3:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I have cut off the nations; of old the Canaanites, lately the ten tribes, later yet the Assyrians and others, have been cut off for their sins. Their towers; either metaphorically, magistrates and great men, as Zephaniah 1:16; or literally, strong towers built on the angles of walls or palaces. Are desolate; razed and demolished. I made their streets waste; I overthrew their houses, that there were no streets. None passeth by; or none walked through them. Their cities, small or great, capital or not capital, are destroyed; taken, plundered, burnt, and ruined. There is no man; all fled, or slain, or starved, or swept away with pestilence, or carried into captivity, not an inhabitant left in the places.

Zephaniah 3:6

6 I have cut off the nations: their towersb are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.