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John Trapp on Zephaniah 1:17

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Zephaniah1:17

Verſe 17. And I will bring diſtreſſe upon men that they ſhall walk like blind men] The Dutch have a Proverb, God puts out the eyes of him whom he intendeth to deſtroy: i. e. he beſotts and infatuates them they ſhall be conſilij & auxilij inopes: in rebus liquidis aqua baerebit, they grope for the wall like the blind, they grope as if they had none eyes, they ſtumble at noon-day as in the night, they are in deſolate places as dead men, Eſay. 59.10. This was long before threatened Deut. 28.28, 29.

becauſe they have ſinned againſt the Lord] Sin is the mother of miſery. See my Love-tokens pag. 111, 112. &c.

and their blood ſhall be powred out as duſt] Then which nothing is more vile and abject, the enemy ſhall make no more of ſpilling their blood, then of ſprinkling a little duſt.Copiſſimè & adjectiſſimè. Tarnou.

and their fleſh as dung] ſpread upon the land to manure it. The Hebrew word for fleſh here may ſeem to ſignifie wormes-meat. Our bodyes are no better,Lechum. Druſ. why then do we pamper and prink them up?

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