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John Trapp on Zephaniah 1:7

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Zephaniah1:7

Verſe 7. Hold thy peace at the preſence of the Lord God] When his hand is upon thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth. Chat not againſt him, murmur not at his menaces, but ſtand mute before him. He is the Lord God, Three in One, and One in Three: thou art alſo alwayes in his preſence, which thou canſt not flee from them, Pſal. 139. therefore ſee Hab. 2.20. with the Note and the rather becauſe God ſtands over thee with his judgements.

for the day of the Lord is at hand] wherein he will powerfully declare himſelf to be a God that cannot lie, and that his wrath is quo diuturnior eo minacior, the longer in comming the heavier it lights. This was ſoon after fulfilled in the death of their good king Ioſiah, with whom died all the peace and proſperity of that people: and Judea often changed her maſters, but not her miſeries, till at length ſhee was carried captive to Babylon.

For the Lord hath prepared a ſacrifice] That is, a bloody ſlaughter of you, by the cruel Chaldees, who ſhall ſacrifice you, that have ſo much gloried in the multitude of your ſacrifices: and God ſhall glorifie himſelf as much now in your juſt deſtruction, as ever he did in your forefathers commendable devotion.

he hath bid his gueſts] The Babylonians, and (after they have filled themſelves) the birds, and beaſts, as Rev. 19.17, 18. ſo that ye ſhall have ſepulturam inſepultam, a graveleſſe buriall.

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