John Trapp on Zephaniah 1:2

Verſe 2. I will utterly conſume all things from off the land] Exordium planè tragicum A tragical beginning of a terrible ſermon. Hard knots muſt have hard wedges; hard hearts, heavy menaces: yea handfuls of hell-fire muſt be caſt into the faces of ſuch, that they may awake out of the ſnare of the devill, by whom they are held captive at his pleaſure. 2 Tim. 2.26. It is in the Hebrew, gathering I will gither all things &c. q. d. g. I will pack up, I will take mine owne, and begone. Converram & convaſabo omnia, I will ſweep away all by the beeſome of my wrath, and leave a clean land behind me, for the ſinnes of thoſe that dwell therein. The doubling of this denunciation Colligendo Colligam importeth the certainty, verity and vehemency thereof.

Saith the Lord] Dictumm Jehovae. You may beleeve it therefore: for every word of his is ſure, and cannot be broken Iohn 10.35. may not be ſlighted or ſhifted off Heb. 12.25.