Zephaniah 1:13

Therefore their goods shall become a booty, 1 and their batim a desolation; 1 they shall also build batim, but not inhabit them; 1 and they shall plant kramim (vineyards), but not drink the yayin thereof. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12And it shall come to pass at that time, 1 that I will search Yerushalayim with nerot (lamps), 1 and visit to punish the [proud] men 1 that are [complacently] settled on their lees; + 1:12 wine dregs 1 that say in their lev: Hashem will not do tov, 1 neither will Hashem do rah. 1

14The Yom Hashem HaGadol is near, 1 near and hastening quickly; 1 the sound of the Yom Hashem is mar (bitter); 1 there the gibbor (mighty man, warrior) cries aloud. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth an isha, and another ish shall lie with her; thou shalt build a bais, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a kerem, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

Deuteronomy 28:51And he shall eat the pri of thy animals, and the pri of thy adamah, until thou be shmad; which also shall not leave thee either dagan, tirosh, or yitzhar, or the increase of thy livestock, or flocks of thy sheep, until it hath destroyed thee.

Isaiah 6:11Then cried I, Adonoi, ad mosai (how much longer [will this go on])? 1 And He answered, 1 Until the towns be wasted without inhabitant, 1 and the batim (houses) are without man, 1 and the ground be utterly desolate, a wilderness, 1

Isaiah 65:21And they shall build batim (houses), and inhabit them; 1 and they shall plant kramim (vineyards), and eat the fruit of them. 1

Jeremiah 4:20Shever (destruction) follows after shever; 1 for the whole land lies in ruins; 1 suddenly are my ohalim destroyed, 1 and my canopies rega. 1

Jeremiah 9:11Who is the ish hechacham (wise man), that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of Hashem hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what HaAretz perisheth and is scorched like a midbar, that none passeth through?

Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 1:8-14

Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 612.) 7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God : for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. 8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord 's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel. 9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit. 10 And it shall come to pass… Read the whole commentary →

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