Księga Sofoniasza 2:15

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Oto wesołe miasto! Mieszkano w nim bezpiecznie! Powtarzało sobie: Tylko my i nikt inny! Zamieniło się w taką okropność, w legowisko zwierząt! Każdy przechodzień, idąc obok, gwizdnie i machnie na nie ręką.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Toć jest ono rozkoszne miasto, które mieszkało bezpiecznie mówiąc w sercu swym: Jam jest jedno samo takowe, a nad mię nie masz inego. Jakoż się oto stało spustoszeniem, a łożyskiem zwierzętam? Ktokolwiek imo nie pójdzie, zaświśnie, a będzie rozkładał nad nim ręce swoje.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Takieć będzie ono miasto weselące się, które siedzi bezpiecznie, mówiące w sercu swojem: Jam miasto, a oprócz mnie niemasz takiego. Jakoć się stało spustoszeniem! jaskinią zwierzowi! każdy przechodzący przez nie zaświśnie, i kiwać będzie ręką swo ją.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Oto huczna stolica, która bezpiecznie panowała; która mniemała w swoim sercu: Ja i żadna więcej! A zamieniła się w pustkowie, w legowisko dla dziczy; tak, że każdy, kto obok niej przejdzie – syknie oraz potrząśnie ręką.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Takieć będzie ono miasto weselące się, które siedzi bezpiecznie, mówiące w sercu swojem: Jam miasto, a oprócz mnie niemasz takiego. Jakoć się stało spustoszeniem! jaskinią zwierzowi! każdy przechodzący przez nie zaświśnie, i kiwać będzie ręką swo ją.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Takie będzie to wesołe miasto, które mieszkało bezpiecznie i mówiło w swoim sercu: Ja jestem i oprócz mnie nie ma innego. Jakże stało się spustoszeniem, legowiskiem zwierząt! Każdy, kto będzie przechodził obok niego, zaświśnie i machnie ręką.

Biblia Warszawska
Oto wesołe miasto, które czuło się bezpieczne i które mówiło do siebie: Tylko ja i nikt inny! Jakim stało się pustkowiem, legowiskiem zwierząt! Każdy, kto będzie przechodził koło niego, zagwiżdże i machnie ręką.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the rejoicing: Isaiah 10:12-14, Isaiah 22:2, Isaiah 47:7, Revelation 18:7-10

I am: Isaiah 47:8, Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:9, Ezekiel 29:3

how is: Isaiah 14:4, Isaiah 14:5, Lamentations 1:1, Lamentations 2:1, Revelation 18:10-19

every: 1 Kings 9:7, 1 Kings 9:8, Job 27:23, Psalms 52:6, Psalms 52:7, Lamentations 2:15, Ezekiel 27:36, Nahum 3:19, Matthew 27:39

Reciprocal: Isaiah 14:13 - thou Jeremiah 9:26 - Egypt Jeremiah 19:8 - General Jeremiah 49:17 - shall hiss Jeremiah 49:31 - that Jeremiah 50:13 - every Jeremiah 51:37 - an hissing Ezekiel 25:5 - a stable Ezekiel 25:6 - thou hast Ezekiel 26:17 - How art Ezekiel 30:9 - careless Obadiah 1:5 - how Nahum 3:6 - will set Zephaniah 2:6 - the sea Acts 28:4 - beast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly,.... Once exceeding populous, and the inhabitants full of mirth and gaiety, abounding with wealth and riches, and indulging themselves in all carnal delights and pleasures; and, being well fortified, thought themselves out of all danger, and were careless and unconcerned, not fearing any enemy that should attack them; imagining their city was impregnable and invincible: these are the words of the prophet, concluding his prophecy concerning the destruction of this city, and having, by a spirit of prophecy, a foresight of its ruin and desolation; or of passengers, and what they should say when they saw it lie in its ruins:

that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none besides me; or, "is there any besides me?" t there is none, no city in the world to be compared to it for the largeness of the place, the strength of its walls, the number of its inhabitants, its wealth and riches: at least so she thought within herself, and was elated with these things; and concluded it would never be otherwise with her; "I am", and shall always continue so:

how is she become a desolation! what a desolate place is this! its walls broken down, its houses demolished, its wealth and riches plundered, its inhabitants destroyed; and now the hold and habitation of beasts of prey, and hateful birds:

a place for beasts to lie down in! and not for men to dwell in: this is said, either as wondering, or as rejoicing at it, as follows:

everyone that passeth by her; and sees her in this ruinous condition:

shall hiss, [and] wag his hand; in scorn and derision, as pleased with the sight, and having no pity and compassion for her, remembering her cruelty to and oppression of others, when in her prosperity; see Nahum 3:19.

t אני ואפסי עזר "et praeter me adhuc quiequam est?" Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This utter desolation is “the rejoicing city” (so unlike is it, that there is need to point out that it is the same); this is she, who was full of joy, exulting exceedingly, but in herself, not in God; “that dwelt carelessly,” literally, “securely,” and so carelessly; saying “Peace and safety” 1 Thessalonians 5:3, as though no evil would come upon her, and so perishing more certainly and miserably (see Judges 18:27) “That said in her heart,” this was her inmost feeling, the moving cause of all her deeds; “I am and there is none beside me;” literally , “and there is no I beside,” claiming the very attribute of God (as the world does) of self-existence, as if it alone were “I,” and others, in respect of her, were as nothing. Pantheism, which denies the being of God, as Author of the world, and claims the life in the material world to be God, and each living being to be a part of God, is only this self-idolatry, reflected upon and carried out in words. All the pride of the world, all self-indulgence which says, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die,” all covetousness which ends in this world, speaks this by its acts, “I and no I beside.”

How is she become a desolation - Has passed wholly into it, exists only as a desolation, “a place for beasts to lie down in,” a mere den for “the wild beasts. Every one that passeth by her shall hiss” in derision, “and wag” (or wave) “his hand” in detestation, as though putting the hand between them and it, so as not to look at it, or, as it were, motioning it away. The action is different from that of “clapping the hands in exultation” Nahum 3:19.

“It is not difficult,” Jerome says, “to explain this of the world, that when the Lord hath stretched forth His Hand over the north and destroyed the Assyrian, the Prince of this world, the world also perishes together with its Princes, and is brought to utter desolation, and is pitied by none, but all hiss and shake their hands at its ruin. But of the Church it seems, at first sight, blasphemous to say that it shall be a pathless desert, and wild beasts shall dwell in her, and that afterward it shall be said insultingly over her; ‘This is the city given up to ill, which “dwelt carelessly and said in her heart, I and none beside.”’ But whoso should consider that of the Apostle, wherein he says, “in the last days perilous times shall come” 2 Timothy 3:1-5, and what is written in the Gospel, that “because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” Matthew 24:12, so that then shall that be fulfilled, “When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find the faith on the earth?” he will not marvel at the extreme desolation of the Church, that, in the reign of antichrist, it shall be reduced to a desolation and given over to beasts, and shall suffer whatever the prophet now describes.

For if for unbelief “God spared not the natural branches,” but “brake them off,” and “turned rivers into a wilderness and the water-springs into a dry ground,” and “a fruitful land into barrenness, for the iniquity of them that dwell therein,” why not as to those of whom He had said, “He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into water-springs, and there He maketh the hungry to dwell” Psalms 107:33-36; and as to those whom “out of the wild olive He hath grafted into the good olive tree,” why, if forgetful of this benefit, they depart from their Maker and worship the Assyrian, should He not undo them and bring them to the same thirst wherein they were before? Which, whereas it may be understood generally of the coming of antichrist or of the end of the world, yet it may, day by day, be understood of those who feign to be of the Church of God, and “in works deny it, are hearers of the word not doers,” who in vain boast in an outward show, whereas herds that is, troops of vices dwell in them, and brute animals serving the body, and all the beasts of the field which devour their hearts (and pelicans, that is, gluttons , whose ‘god is their belly’) and hedgehogs, a prickly animal full of spikes which pricketh whatever it toucheth.

After which it is subjoined, that the Church shall therefore suffer this, or hath suffered it, because it lifted itself up proudly and raised its head like a cedar, given up to evil works, and yet promising itself future blessedness, and despising others in its heart, nor thinking that there is any other beside itself, and saying, “I am, and there is no other beside me,” how is it become a solitude, a lair of beasts! For where before, dwelt the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and Angels presided over its ministries, there shall beasts dwell. And if we understand that, every one that passeth by shall hiss, we shall explain it thus; when Angels shall pass through her, and not remain in her, as was their wont, they shall be amazed and marvel, and shall not support and bear her up with their hand, when falling, but shall lift up the hands and shall pass by. Or they shall make a sound as those who mourn. But if we understand this of the devil and his angels, who destroyed the vine also that was brought out of Egypt, we shall say, that through the soul, which before was the temple of God and hath ceased so to be, the serpent passeth, and hisseth and spitteth forth the venom of his malice in her, and not this only, but setteth in motion his works which figuratively are called hands.”

Rup.: “The earlier and partial fulfillment of prophecy does not destroy, it rather confirms, the entire fulfillment to come. For whoso heareth of the destruction of mighty cities, is constrained to believe the truth of the Gospel, that the fashion of this world passeth away, and that, after the likeness of Nineveh and Babylon, the Lord will in the end judge the whole world also.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zephaniah 2:15. This is the rejoicing city — The city in which mirth, jocularity, and pleasure, reigned without interruption.

And wag his hand — Will point her out as a mark and monument of Divine displeasure.