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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Young's Literal Translation

Zephaniah 1:16

A day of trumpet and shouting against the fenced cities, And against the high corners.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Trumpet;   War;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Day of the lord;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Anger;   Day;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alarm;   Bulwarks;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Trumpets, Feast of;   Zephaniah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Day of the Lord;   Zephaniah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fortification and Siegecraft;   Zephaniah (1);   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Corner-Stone ;   Day of Judgment;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - War;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alarm;   Fortification;   Zephaniah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
a day of trumpet blast and battle cryagainst the fortified cities,and against the high corner towers.
Hebrew Names Version
a day of the shofar and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
King James Version (1611)
A day of the trumpet and alarme against the fenced cities, and against the high towres.
King James Version
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
English Standard Version
a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.
New American Standard Bible
A day of trumpet and battle cry Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.
New Century Version
a day of alarms and battle cries. ‘Attack the strong, walled cities! Attack the corner towers!'
Amplified Bible
A day of trumpet and the battle cry [of invaders] Against the fortified cities And against the high corner towers (battlements).
Geneva Bible (1587)
A day of the trumpet and alarme against the strong cities, and against the hie towres.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A day of trumpet and battle cry Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.
Legacy Standard Bible
A day of trumpet and loud shoutingAgainst the fortified citiesAnd the high corner towers.
Berean Standard Bible
a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
Contemporary English Version
of trumpet calls and battle cries against fortified cities and mighty fortresses.
Complete Jewish Bible
a Day of the shofar and battle-cry against the fortified cities and against the high towers [on the city walls].
Darby Translation
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fenced cities and against the high battlements.
Easy-to-Read Version
It will be like a time of war when people hear horns and trumpets in the defense towers and protected cities.
George Lamsa Translation
A day of the trumpet and shouting against the fenced cities and against the high towers.
Good News Translation
a day filled with the sound of war trumpets and the battle cry of soldiers attacking fortified cities and high towers.
Lexham English Bible
a day of trumpet and trumpet blast against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers.
Literal Translation
a day of the ram's horn and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
American Standard Version
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
Bible in Basic English
A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A day of the horn and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A day of the trumpet and alarum against the strong cities, and hie towres.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
a day of the trumpet and cry against the strong cities, and against the high towers.
English Revised Version
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fenced cities, and against the high battlements.
World English Bible
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
dai of trumpe and noise on strong citees and on hiye corneris.
Update Bible Version
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
Webster's Bible Translation
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
New English Translation
a day of trumpet blasts and battle cries. Judgment will fall on the fortified cities and the high corner towers.
New King James Version
A day of trumpet and alarm Against the fortified cities And against the high towers.
New Living Translation
a day of trumpet calls and battle cries. Down go the walled cities and the strongest battlements!
New Life Bible
It is a day of the sound of a horn and the cry of battle against the strong cities and the high towers.
New Revised Standard
a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
day of horn, and war-shout, - against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high bulwarks.
Revised Standard Version
a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
a daye of the noyse of trompettes and shawmes, agaynst the stronge cities and hie towres.

Contextual Overview

14 Near [is] the great day of Jehovah, Near, and hasting exceedingly, The noise of the day of Jehovah, Bitterly shriek there doth a mighty one. 15 A day of wrath [is] that day, A day of adversity and distress, A day of waste and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of cloud and thick darkness. 16 A day of trumpet and shouting against the fenced cities, And against the high corners. 17 And I have sent distress to men, And they have walked as the blind, For against Jehovah they have sinned, And poured out is their blood as dust, And their flesh [is] as dung. 18 Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

day: Isaiah 59:10, Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:20, Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 8:16, Hosea 5:8, Hosea 8:1, Amos 3:6, Habakkuk 1:6-10, Habakkuk 3:6

and against: Psalms 48:12, Psalms 48:13, Isaiah 2:12-15, Isaiah 32:14

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:9 - then ye shall Isaiah 13:10 - General Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Jeremiah 20:16 - let him Joel 2:1 - and sound

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.
Genesis 1:8
And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.
Genesis 1:9
And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that [it is] good;
Genesis 1:14
And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,
Deuteronomy 4:19
`And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.
Job 31:26
If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,
Job 38:7
In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,
Psalms 8:3
For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.
Psalms 19:6
From the end of the heavens [is] his going out, And his revolution [is] unto their ends, And nothing is hid from his heat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities,.... The trumpet of the enemy, sounding the alarm of war against the fenced cities of Judea, which were taken before Jerusalem; calling and gathering the soldiers together, and animating them to the assault of them; and blowing them in a way of triumph; and as expressive of victory, having got possession of them:

and against the high towers; or "corners" x; towers being usually built corner-wise, and full of corners, and on the corners of walls of cities; sometimes these signify princes, magistrates, and great men,

Zechariah 10:4.

x פנות "pinnas", Montanus, Castalio; "angulos", Junius & Tremellius, Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A day of the trumpet and alarm - o that is, of the loud blast of the trumpet, which sounds alarm and causes it. The word is especially the shrill loud noise of the trumpet (for sacred purposes in Israel itself, as ruling all the movements of the tabernacle and accompanying their feasts); then also of the “battle cry.” They had not listened to the voice of the trumpet, as it called them to holy service; now they shall hear “the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God” 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

Against the high towers - Literally, “corners” , and so “corner-towers.” This peculiarity describes Jerusalem, whose walls “were made artificially standing in a line curved inwards, so that the flanks of assailants might be exposed.” By this same name Judges 20:2; 1 Samuel 14:38; Isaiah 19:13; Zechariah 10:4 are called the mighty men and chiefs of the people, who, humanly speaking, hold it together and support it; on these chiefs in rebellion against God, whether devils or evil men, shall punishment greatly fall.


 
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