Zephaniah 1:17
I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
Psalms 79:2They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 83:10who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
Isaiah 29:10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 1:15-18
Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 612.) 14 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord : the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. 17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men,… Read the whole commentary →