John Trapp on Zephaniah 1:8

Verſe 8. And it ſhall come to paſſe in the day of the Lords ſacrifice] Or, good chear: for at their ſacrifices they uſed to feaſt their friends: and here the Lord is providing dainties for his gueſts; viz. the fleſh of Princes, gallants, courtiers, verſ. 9. merchants, 11. who uſe to eat the fat, and drink the ſweet,Jam. 5.5. nouriſhing their hearts as in a day of ſlaughter: and now alſo for a day of ſlaughter: when the beaſts ſhall tear their fleſh, and the birds bare their bones.

that I will puniſh the Princes and the Kings children] Who might ſeem to bee ſafeſt of any, and fartheſt off from danger: but Gods hand can eaſily reach them, and ſhall do with the firſt, becauſe their faults flie faſt abroad upon thoſe two wings of Example and Scandal. See this threatening fulfilled in Joſiah's ſonnes (thoſe degenerate plants, Heroum filii noxae.) Jehoahaz ambitiouſly ſtep into his fathers throne before his elder brother, and was ſoon after carried down to Egypt, and there ſlain. Jehoiakim the elder brother ſucceeded him: but rebelling againſt the king of Babylon, he was carried captive, and dying by the way, was buried with the buriall of an aſſe, being caſt out to be torn by birds and beaſts,Jer. 22. according to this propheſie. Jechoniah came after, and was likewiſe carried into captivity: but becauſe he hearkened to Jeremiah, perſwading him to yeeld, and to go into voluntary baniſhment, he had ſome good dayes toward his latter end, Jer. 52.31, 32. Laſtly Zedekiah, another ſonne of Joſiah, was made king; who as hee was worſe then the former, ſo he ſped worſe. See Ier. 39.6, 7. potentes potenter torquebantur.

and all ſuch as are clothed with ſtrange apparell] Thoſe gallants, that imitated in their raiment thoſe whom they moſt inclined to; ſome the Egyptians, others the Babylonians. A vanity not known in England, they ſay, till the warres in Holland. And (as ex malis moribus bonae leges) then firſt were great ruffes, with huge wide ſets,Camd. Eliſ. 215. and cloaks reaching almoſt to the ancles, no leſſe uncomely then coſtly, reſtrained by Proclamation. Now, what ſo common with our faſhionmongers (againſt whom this is a ſtinging and a flaming text) then to bee cloathed with ſtrange apparell, Oh what enemy of thine hath taught thee ſo much vanity? ſaid Mr. John Fox to his ſon, returning from his travels, and attired in a looſe Outlandiſh faſhion. Hiſt. of Modern Divi. pag. 279. a la mode de France eſpecially, and other Popiſh countries. But what ſaith One, Borrow not (faſhions) of the Egyptians: if you do, you may get their biles and botches: of the Polonians, leſt you get the plica Polonica in your hairy ſcalps: of the French, leſt the lues Gallica befall you. Thoſe that affected the Babylonian habit, were ſent captives to Babylon, Ezek. 23.15. and thoſe proud Dames (whoſe wardrobe is inventoried, Eſay 3.16. &c.) were a cauſe that the mighty men fell in battle, ver. 25.26. Seneca complaineth, that many in his time were more ſolicitous of their attire, then of their good behaviour; and that they had rather the Common-wealth ſhould be troubled, then their locks, and ſet looks. And doth not our age abound with ſuch fantaſticall Cincinnatuli.