Matthew Poole and continuators on Zephaniah 1:10

And it shall come to pass in that day saith the LORD , that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate , and an howling from the second , and a great crashing from the hills .

See ver. 9. let. a.

To assure us of the certainty of the thing.

The voice Heb. of a cry, i. e. a very great outcry and lamentation.

Which was on the west side of Ierusalem, through which Gate they brought in fish from [illegible: 1 word], and other Sea Towns on the West Sea, or great Sea, now the Mediterranean, at which Gate the Babylonians are said first to enter into the City, when they took it thus, it will be a prediction at what Gate [illegible: 1 letter]he Enemy should enter.

The great, horrid, and confus'd lamentations of desperate and undone multitudes crying out, and bitterly bemoaning themselves.

Gate which was in the second Wall of Ierusalem, which on that side was fortified with three Walls, or second part of the City, or the middle City, for 'twas divided into three parts. Others read Second as a Proper Name, and make it the School, Colledge, or University, and so render the howling of the University, i. e. of Students either slaughter'd, or captivated by Chaldeans.

Breaking in pieces, or the noise of what is broken into shivers; possibly the noise of Doors, Windows, Closers, and Chests broken up, or burning

in the houses of Nobles, likned here to hills, or more literally in Gareb and Goath, on which the flying Iews pursued by the Chaldees, lost what they carryed with them, and their life too; so all places were full of miserable slaughter, and out-cryes.