Zephaniah 1:13

Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.

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WEBBE

Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.

BSB

Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.

ASV

And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.

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וְהָיָה ve·ha·yah and it will become H1961 חֵילָם chei·lam wealth their H2428 לִמְשִׁסָּה lim·shi·sah (into) plunder H4933 וּבָתֵּיהֶם u·va·tei·hem and houses their H1004 לִשְׁמָמָה lish·ma·mah (into) a desolation H8077 וּבָנוּ u·va·nu and they will build H1129 בָתִּים va·tim houses H1004 וְלֹא ve·lo' and not H3808 יֵשֵׁבוּ ye·she·vu they will dwell [in them] H3427 וְנָטְעוּ ve·na·te·'u and they will plant H5193 כְרָמִים khe·ra·mim vineyards H3754 וְלֹא ve·lo' and not H3808 יִשְׁתּוּ yish·tu they will drink H8354 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 יֵינָם yei·nam wine their H3196

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 7–13

God's day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is a sacrifice to the justice of God. The Jewish royal family shall be reckoned with for their pride and vanity; and those that leap on the threshold, invading their neighbours' rights, and seizing their possessions. The trading people and the rich merchants are called to account. Secure and careless people are reckoned with. They are secure and easy; they say in their heart, the Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil; that is, they deny his dispensing rewards and punishments. But in the day of the Lord's judgment, it will clearly appear that those who perish, fall a sacrifice to Divine justice for breaking God's law, and because they have no interest by faith in the Redeemer's atoning sacrifice.

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