Zephaniah 1:10

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

And there shall come to be, in that day, declareth Yahweh, The noise of an outcry from the fish-gate, and of a howling out of the new city, - and of a great crashing, from the hills.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord also said, "At that time people will be calling for help at Fish Gate in Jerusalem and mourning in the new part of town. They will hear the sound of destruction in the hills around the city.

New American Standard Bible
"And on that day," declares the LORD, "There will be the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, Wailing from the Second Quarter, And a loud crash from the hills.

New Century Version
"On that day," says the Lord , "a cry will be heard at the Fish Gate. A wail will come from the new area of the city, and a loud crash will echo from the hills.

Update Bible Version
And in that day, says Yahweh, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, [that there shall be] the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, and a howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

Amplified Bible
"On that day," declares the LORD, "There will be the sound of crying from the Fish (Damascus) Gate [in the northern wall of Jerusalem where invaders enter] And wailing from the Second Quarter [of the city], And a loud crash from the hills.

English Standard Version
"On that day," declares the Lord , "a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.

World English Bible
In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ther schal be in that dai, seith the Lord, a vois of cry fro the yate of fischis, and yellynge fro the secounde yate, and greet defoulyng fro litle hillis.

English Revised Version
And in that day, saith the LORD, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Berean Standard Bible
"On that day," declares the LORD, "a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, and a loud crashing from the hills.

Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord , promise that on that day noisy crying will be heard from Fish Gate, New Town, and Upper Hills.

American Standard Version
And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Bible in Basic English
And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

Complete Jewish Bible
Also on that day," says Adonai , "a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city's Second Quarter and a loud crash from the hills.

Darby Translation
And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, and a howling from the second [quarter], and a great crashing from the hills.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And in that day, saith the LORD, Hark! a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

King James Version (1611)
And it shall come to passe in that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hils.

New Living Translation
"On that day," says the Lord , "a cry of alarm will come from the Fish Gate and echo throughout the New Quarter of the city. And a great crash will sound from the hills.

New Life Bible
On that day," says the Lord, "a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate. A cry of sorrow will be heard from the new part of the city, and a loud noise from the hills.

New Revised Standard
On that day, says the Lord , a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And in that day, saith the Lord, there shall be a noise, and cry from the fishgate, and an howling from the second gate, and a great destruction from the hilles.

George Lamsa Translation
And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate and a wailing from the second gate and a great crashing from the hills.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great destruction from the hills.

Revised Standard Version
"On that day," says the LORD, "a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
At the same time sayth the Lord, [there shalbe hearde] a great crye from the fishe porte, and an howling from the seconde porte, and a great destruction from the hylles.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the sound of a cry from the gate of men slaying, and a howling from the second gate, and a great crashing from the hills.

Good News Translation
"On that day," says the Lord , "you will hear the sound of crying at the Fish Gate in Jerusalem. You will hear wailing in the newer part of the city and a great crashing sound in the hills.

Christian Standard Bible®
On that day—

Hebrew Names Version
In that day, says the LORD, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

King James Version
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord , that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

Lexham English Bible
"And there shall be on that day"—a declaration of Yahweh— "a loud outcry from the Fish Gate, and a wailing from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.

Literal Translation
And it shall be in that day, declares Jehovah, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great breaking from the hills.

Young's Literal Translation
And there hath been in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, The noise of a cry from the fish-gate, And of a howling from the Second, And of great destruction from the hills.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
At ye same tyme (saieth the LORDE) there shall be herde a greate crie from the fyshporte, and an howlinge from ye other porte, and a greate murthur from the hilles.

New English Translation
On that day," says the Lord , "a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city's newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.

New King James Version
"And there shall be on that day," says the LORD, "The sound of a mournful cry from the Fish Gate, A wailing from the Second Quarter, And a loud crashing from the hills.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"On that day," declares the LORD, "There will be the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, A wail from the Second Quarter, And a loud crash from the hills.

Legacy Standard Bible
And it will be in that day," declares Yahweh,"That there will be the sound of a cry from the Fish GateAnd a wail from the Second QuarterAnd a great destruction from the hills.

Contextual Overview

⁷ Hush! at the presence of My Lord, Yahweh, - for, near, is the day of Yahweh, for Yahweh hath prepared his sacrifice, hath hallowed his guests. ⁸ And it shall come to pass, in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the rulers, and the sons of the king, - and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel; ⁹ And I will punish every one who leapeth over the threshold, in that day, - those who fill the house of their lords with violence and deceit. ¹⁰ And there shall come to be, in that day, declareth Yahweh, The noise of an outcry from the fish-gate, and of a howling out of the new city, - and of a great crashing, from the hills. ¹¹ Howl, ye inhabitants of the lower city, - because destroyed are all the people of traffic, cut off are all they who were laden with silver. ¹² And it shall come to pass, at that time, that I will search through Jerusalem, with lamps, - and will punish the men who are thickened upon their lees, who are saying in their heart, Yahweh, will not give blessing, neither will he bring calamity. ¹³ Therefore shall their goods become a booty, and their houses, a desolation, - and they shall build houses, but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in: Zephaniah 1:7, Zephaniah 1:15, Jeremiah 39:2

the noise: Isaiah 22:4, Isaiah 22:5, Isaiah 59:11, Jeremiah 4:19-21, Jeremiah 4:31, Amos 8:3

the fish gate: 2 Chronicles 33:14, Nehemiah 3:3

the second: 2 Kings 22:14, 2 Chronicles 32:22

from: 2 Samuel 5:7, 2 Samuel 5:9, 2 Chronicles 3:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 11:6 - General Nehemiah 12:39 - the fish gate Isaiah 52:5 - make Jeremiah 4:6 - destruction Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Jeremiah 30:5 - a voice Jeremiah 46:12 - thy cry Jeremiah 47:2 - then the Jeremiah 51:54 - General Zephaniah 1:14 - even Zechariah 11:3 - a voice

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was, good, and God divided the light, from the, darkness;

Deuteronomy 32:4
A Rock! faultless his work, For, all his ways, are just, A GOD of faithfulness and without perversity, Right and fair, is he!

Psalms 104:31
Be thy glory, O Yahweh, to times age-abiding, Let Yahweh rejoice in his own works:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord,.... In the day of the Lord's sacrifice, when he shall punish the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans; which, as well as what follows, shall surely come to pass, because the Lord has said it; for not one word of his shall pass away, but all be fulfilled:

[that there shall be] the noise of a cry from the fish gate; a gate of the city of Jerusalem so called, which suffered as the rest in the destruction of the city by the Babylonians, and, after the captivity, was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah, Nehemiah 3:3 according to Jerom, it was on the west side of the city, and led to Diospolis and Joppa; and was the nearest road to the Mediterranean sea, or any of the roads to Jerusalem, from whence fish were brought, and brought in by this gate; and very probably the fish market was near it, from whence it had its name; though Cocceius places it in the north corner of the east side of the city, and so was nearer Jordan, the sea of Tiberias, and the city of Tyre, from whence fish might be brought hither, and sold,

Nehemiah 13:16 however, be it where it will, the enemy it seems would attack it, and enter in by it; upon which a hideous cry would be made, either by the assailants, the Chaldeans, at their attack upon it, and entrance through it; or by the inhabitants of it, or that were nearest to it, upon their approach, or both:

and an howling from the second; either from the second gate; and if the fish gate is the same with the first gate, Zechariah 14:10 then this may be pertinently called the second. Jarchi calls it the bird gate, which was the second to the fish gate. So the Targum,

"from the bird, or the bird gate;''

though some copies of it read, from the tower or high fortress: or else this designs the second wall, and the gate in that which answered to the fish gate; for Jerusalem was encompassed with three walls; the fish gate was in the outermost, and this was in the second, to which the Chaldeans came next, and occasioned a dreadful howling and lamentation in the people that dwelt near it. Kimchi interprets it of the school or university that was in Jerusalem; the same word is rendered the cottage in which Huldah the prophetess lived, 2 Kings 22:14 and there, by the Targum,

"the house of doctrine or instruction;''

so then the sense is, a grievous outcry would be heard from the university or school of the prophets; the enemy having entered it, and were slaying the students, or seizing them in order to carry them captive:

and a great crashing from the hills; either that were in Jerusalem, as Mount Zion and Moriah, on which the temple stood; or those that were round about it, as Gareb, and Goath, and others; though some interpret this of the houses of nobles that stood in the higher parts of the city, where there would be a shivering, a breaking to pieces, as the word signifies, of doors and windows without, and of furniture within.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A cry from the fish-gate - “The fish-gate” was probably in the north of the wall of “the second city.” For in Nehemiah’s rebuilding, the restoration began at the sheep-gate Nehemiah 3:1 (so called doubtless, because the sheep for the sacrifices were brought in by it), which, as being near the temple, was repaired by the priests; then it ascended northward, by two towers, the towers of Meah and Hananeel; then two companies repaired some undescribed part of the wall Nehemiah 3:2, and then another company built the fish-gate Nehemiah 3:3. Four companies are then mentioned, who repaired, in order, to the old gate, which was repaired by another company Nehemiah 3:4-6. Three more companies repaired beyond these; and they left Jerusalem unto the broad wall Nehemiah 3:7-8. After three more sections repaired by individuals, two others repaired a second measured portion, and the tower of the furnaces Nehemiah 3:9-11.

This order is reversed in the account of the dedication of the walls. The people being divided “into two great companies of them that give thanks” Nehemiah 12:31-38, some place near “the tower of the furnaces” was the central point, from which both parted to encompass the city in opposite directions. In this account, we have two additional gates mentioned, “the gate of Ephraim” Nehemiah 12:39, between the “broad wall” and the “old gate,” and “the prison-gate,” beyond “the sheep-gate,” from which the repairs had begun. “The gate of Ephraim” had obviously not been repaired, because, for some reason, it had not been destroyed. Elsewhere, Nehemiah, who describes the rebuilding of the wall so minutely, must have mentioned its rebuilding. It was obviously to the north, as leading to Ephraim. But the tower of Hananeel must have been a very marked tower. In Zechariah Jerusalem is measured from north to south, “from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses” Zechariah 14:10.

It was then itself at the northeast corner of Jerusalem, where towers were of most importance to strengthen the wall, and to command the approach to the wall either way. “The fish-gate” then, lying between it and “the gate of Ephraim,” must have been on the north side of the city, and so on the side where the Chaldaean invasions came; yet it must have been much inside the present city, because the city itself was enlarged by Herod Agrippa on the north, as it was unaccountably contracted on the south. The then limits of Jerusalem are defined. For Josephus thus describes “the second wall.” (B. J. v. 42): “It took its beginning from that gate which they called “Gennath,” which belonged to the first wall; it only encompassed the northern quarter of the city and reached as far as the tower of Antonia.” The tower of Antonia was situated at the northwest angle of the corner of the temple. The other end of the wall, the Gennath or “garden” gate, must have opened on cultivated land; and Josephus speaks of the gardens on the north and northwest of the city which were destroyed by Titus in leveling the ground (B. J. v. 32).

But near the tower of Hippicus, the northwestern extremity of the first wall, no ancient remains have been discovered by excavation ; but they have been traced north, from “an ancient Jewish semi-circular arch, resting on piers 18 feet high, now buried in rubbish.”

These old foundations have been traced at three places in a line on the east of the Holy Sepulchre (which lay consequently outside the city) up to the judgment gate, but not north of it .

The line from west to east, that is, to the tower of Antonia, is marked generally by “very large stones, evidently of Jewish work, in the walls of houses, especially in the lower parts” . They are chiefly in the line of the Via Dolorosa.

“The fish-gate” had its name probably from a fish-market (markets being in the open places near the gates (see 2 Kings 7:1; Nehemiah 13:16, Nehemiah 13:19)) the fish being brought either from the lake of Tiberius or from Joppa. Near it, the wall ended, which Manasseh, after his restoration from Babylon, “built without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley” 2 Chronicles 33:14. This, being unprotected by its situation, was the weakest part of the city. : “The most ancient of the three walls could be considered as impregnable, as much on account of its extreme thickness, as of the height of the mountain on which it was built, and the depth of the valleys at its base, and David, Solomon and the other kings neglected nothing to place it in this state.” Where they had made themselves strong, there God’s judgment should find them.

And a howling from the second - city, as it is supplied in Nehemiah, who mentions the prefect set over it . It was here that Huldah the prophetess lived , who prophesied the evils to come upon Jerusalem, after Josiah should be “gathered to” his “grave in peace.” It was probably the lower city, which was enclosed by the second wall. It was a second or new city, as compared to the original city of David, on Mount Moriah. On this the enemy who had penetrated by the fish-gate would first enter; then take the strongest part of the city itself. Gareb Jeremiah 31:39 and Bezetha were outside of the then town; they would then be already occupied by the enemy before entering the city.

A great crashing from the hills - These are probably Zion, and Mount Moriah on which the temple stood, and so the capture is described as complete. Here should be not a cry or howling only, but an utter destruction . Mount Moriah was the seat of the worship of God; on Mount Zion was the state, and the abode of the wealthy. In human sight they were impregnable. The Jebusites mocked at David’s siege, as thinking their city impregnable 2 Samuel 5:6; but God was with David and he took it. He and his successors fortified it yet more, but its true defense was that the Lord was round about His people” Psalms 125:2, and when lie withdrew His protection, then this natural strength was but their destruction, tempting them to resist first the Chaldaeans, then the Romans. Human strength is but a great crash, falling by its own weight and burying its owner. “This threefold cry , from three parts of the city, had a fulfillment before the destruction by the Romans. In the lower part of the city Simon tyrannized, and in the middle John raged, and “there was a great crashing from the hills,” that is, from the temple and citadel where was Eleazar, who stained the very altar of the temple with blood, and in the courts of the Lord made a pool of blood of divers corpses.”

Cyril: “In the assaults of an enemy the inhabitants are ever wont to flee to the tops of the hills, thinking that the difficulty of access will be a hindrance to him, and will cut off the assaults of the pursuers. But when God smiteth, and requireth of the despisers the penalties of their sin, not the most towered city nor impregnable circuits of walls, not height of hills, or rough rocks, or pathless difficulty of ground, will avail to the sufferers. Repentance alone saves, softening the Judge and allaying His wrath, and readily inviting the Creator in His inherent goodness to His appropriate gentleness. Better is it, with all our might to implore that we may not offend Him. But since human nature is prone to evil, and “in many things we all offend” James 3:2, let us at least by repentance invite to His wonted clemency the Lord of all, Who is by nature kind.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zephaniah 1:10. A cry from the fish-gate — This gate, which is mentioned Nehemiah 3:3, was opposite to Joppa; and perhaps the way in which the news came of the irruption of the Chaldean army, the great crashing from the hills.

The second — Or second city, may here mean a part of Jerusalem, mentioned 2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chronicles 34:22.