Matthew Poole and continuators on Zephaniah 1:17

17 And I will bring distress upon men , that they shall walk like blind men , because they have sinned against e the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust , and their flesh as the dung .

Gast them into, and surround or besiege them with distress; Calamities which shall greatly trouble, and perplex.

The chiefest among them, the richest, and who think themselves safest; the mighty men, as ver. 10. let, m. like blind men▪ shall neither know what to do, or where to fly, neither be [illegible: 1 letter]it for Counsel or Action.

All this for their great sins against the Lord, these men of note have been as much greater in sin as in state above others, and shall be as much deep in distress.

As freely, abundantly, and as contemptibly, as dust in the High-way.

Shall be spread as dung on the face of the Earth to fatten and improve it, their life shall be of no more value than dust, their honour no more regarded than dung, and they shall be so used after death.