Zephaniah 1:9

In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

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WEBBE

In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

BSB

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

KJV

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

ASV

And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

BBE

And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

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וּפָקַדְתִּי u·fa·kad·ti and I will visit [judgment] H6485 עַל 'al on H5921 כָּל־ kol- every H3605 הַדּוֹלֵג ha·do·leg (the) [one who] leaps H1801 עַל־ 'al- over H5921 הַמִּפְתָּן ha·mif·tan the threshold H4670 בַּיּוֹם bai·yom on the day H3117 הַהוּא ha·hu' (the) that H1931 הַמְמַלְאִים ha·mal·'im those [who] fill H4390 בֵּית beit [the] house of H1004 אֲדֹנֵיהֶם 'a·do·nei·hem lord(s) their H113 חָמָס cha·mas violence H2555 וּמִרְמָה ס u·mir·mah and deceit H4820

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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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.