John Trapp on Zephaniah 1:13

Verſe 13. Therefore their goods ſhall become a booty] Their evill-gotten goods ver. 9.11.Ecc. 4.1, 2, 3. (for a proof of my providence which they bluſhed not to deny) ſhall be carried away by the Chaldees, to their unmedicinable ſorrow and heartbreake.

and their houſes a deſolation] becauſe built in blood. See Nah. 2.11, 12.

they ſhall alſo build houſes but not inhabite them &c.] Ex lege mutuatur minas. That they might the more regard his words, The Pophet makes uſe of the menaces of the Law Deut. 28.30.39. whereof the Prophets were Interpreters: applying, as here, the generall doctrine thereof to the people of their times. To rebuke or exhort men in good words, in Gods own words, is the readieſt way to prevaile with them: unleſſe they be Lucifugae ſcripturarum (as Tertullian ſaith of the Marcionites and Valentinians) which yet will take hold of them howſoever Zech. 1.6.