Matthew Poole and continuators on Zephaniah 1:15

15 That day is a day of wrath , a day of trouble and distress , a day of wastness and desolation , a day of darkness and gloominess , a day of clouds, and thick darkness .

Great day, ver. 14.

From the Chaldeans, and from the Lord, actively, upon the Iews passively.

Here the Prophet heapeth up words of much the same sense to express the grievousness of the troubles of those times which shall suddenly come upon them, most distressing trouble, none knowing how to bear it, or where to hide from it.

Most desolate wastness in City, Villages, and Fields; every where the spoiling Souldier shall lay waste, carrying all he can, and destroying what he cannot carry away.

Possibly it might be so as to the temper of the air dark, and gloomy, but figuratively I am sure it was so.

Either literally from the Heavens clouded over them, or (i[illegible: 1 letter] it refer, as it may to the day of sacking Ierusalem, and effects of it) darkness, gloominess, Clouds, and thick darkness arising from the smoak and fire of the City every where fired by the Enemy, but Metaphorically these speak the most unparallel'd calamities.

Marginal references: Jer. 30.7. [illegible: 1 word] 2.2, 11. [illegible: 1 word] 5.18.