Matthew Poole and continuators on Zephaniah 3:6

6 I have cut off the nations : their towers are desolate , I made their streets waste , that none passeth by : their cities are destroy'd , so that there is no man , that there is none inhabitant.

Of old the Canaanites, lately the ten Tribes, later yet, the Assyrians; and others have been cut off for their sins.

Either metaphorically Magistrates and great men, as chap. 1.16. Or litterally strong Towers built on the angles of Walls or Palaces.

Razed and demolished.

I overthrew their houses, that there were no streets,

or none that walkt through them.

Small or great, capital or not capital.

Taken, plundered, burnt, and ruined.

All fled, or slain, or starved, or swept away with Pestilence, or carried into Captivity, not an inhabitant left in the places.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word]