John Trapp on Zephaniah 2:9

Verſe 9. Therefore as I live [This is Gods oath: ſo, As true as I live, Num. 14.21. with Pſal. 95.10. therefore they are to blame that uſe it in their common talk.

Surely Moab ſhal be as Sodom, &c.] Whereas they think that I either hear not their revilings, or regard them not, I ſhall make Moab and Ammon ſmart and ſmoak for them.

even the breeding of nettles and ſalt pits] They ſhall not indeed be conſumed with fire from heaven: but their land ſhall lie waſte for a long ſeaſon. Nettles grow in barren places, and are good for nothing, unleſſe it be the buds at firſt coming. Pliny writeth,Hiſt. Nat. l. 31. c. 7. that where ſalt is digg'd, little good elſe groweth. See Judg. 9.45. Pſal. 107.34.

for a perpetuall deſolation] Certain it is, that thoſe nations carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar were never reſtored: but that in after-times a mixt multitude of vagrants, out of many nations met there, taking upon them the old title of Arabians, and living by rapine and robbery. Out of theſe came Mahomet, founder of the Turkiſh Empire and Superſtition, who overturned the Chriſtian Churches, there planted by the Apoſtles, (as was here fore-prophecied, The reſidne of my people ſhall ſpoil them, &c. See verſe 7.) Confer Gal. 1.17. and ſoon over-run all the Eaſt and South, as Popery did all the Weſt and North, at the ſame time.