Matthew Poole and continuators on Zephaniah 1:3

3 I will consume man and beast : I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked , and I will cut off man from off the land saith the LORD.

The former verse denounced the [illegible: 1 letter]uture desolation in general terms. This verse specifieth what desolation in particular God would bring upon the Land. Man shall be consumed for his own sin, and the beasts consumed for mans sake; Men by the Pestilence and Famine, the Beasts by Murrain, and devoured by multitudes of hungry Souldiers that shall make greater havock than any Murrain ordinarily doth

Either by some unknown Disease among them, or else by a distast at the stench of putrifying Carcases they fled away, so that none, or very few appeared, insomuch that it lookt as if it were all consumed.

By Sea, some understand Ponds, Lakes, or smaller Seas, such as that of Genezareth and Tiberias, the Waters whereof might be made noisom to the fish by the streams of blood, and Carcasses which might possibly be cast into them, or God might destroy the Fishes by some consuming Disease too. He hath ways to do it, who hath once said he will do it.

The Idols.

The Idolatrous Priests, and others who worshipt them.

All shall disappear.

Of Iudah.

Marginal references: Hos. 4.3.; Or, Idols.