Zefanya 1:11

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Merataplah, hai penduduk perkampungan Lumpang! Sebab telah habis segenap kaum pedagang, telah lenyap segenap penimbang perak.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Merataplah, hai penduduk perkampungan Lumpang! Sebab telah habis segenap kaum pedagang, telah lenyap segenap penimbang perak.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tangislah kamu, hai segala orang isi Makhtesy! Karena segala orang Kanani itu sudah dibinasakan, dan segala orang yang mengangkat perak itu sudah ditumpas!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Howl: Jeremiah 4:8, Jeremiah 25:34, Ezekiel 21:12, Joel 1:5, Joel 1:13, Zechariah 11:2, Zechariah 11:3, James 5:1

all the: Nehemiah 3:31, Nehemiah 3:32, Hosea 12:7, Hosea 12:8, John 2:16, Revelation 18:11-18

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Jeremiah 30:5 - a voice Jeremiah 47:2 - then the Ezekiel 30:2 - Howl Zephaniah 1:18 - their silver Revelation 2:23 - and all

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh,.... The name of a street in Jerusalem, as Aben Ezra; perhaps it lay low in the hollow of the city, and in the form of a mortar, from whence it might have its name, as the word q signifies; which is used both for a hollow place and for a mortar, Judges 15:19 unless it might be so called from such persons dwelling in it, that used mortars for spice, and other things. The Targum is,

"howl, all ye that dwell in the valley of Kidron;''

and Jerom thinks the valley of Siloah is intended, which is the same; which, Adrichomius r says, was broad, deep, and dark, and surrounded the temple in manner of a foss, or ditch; and was disposed in the form of a mortar, called in Hebrew "machtes"; in Latin, "pila"; in which merchants and tradesmen of all kinds dwelt. It is thought by others to be the same which Josephus s calls "the valley of the cheese mongers", which lay between the two hills Zion and Acra. The reason of their howling is,

for all the merchant people are cut down; either cut to pieces by the sword of the enemy, and become silent, as the word t sometimes signifies, and the Vulgate Latin version here renders it; become so by death, and laid in the silent grave, and no more concerned in merchandise; or else stripped of all their wealth and goods by the enemy, and so cut down, broke, and become bankrupt, and could trade no more. The word for merchant signifies a Canaanite; and the Targum paraphrases it thus,

"for all the people are broken, whose works are like the works of the people of the land of Canaan:''

all they that bear silver are cut off; that have large quantities of it, and carry it to market to buy goods with it as merchants; these shall be cut off, and so a great loss to trade, and a cause of howling and lamentation; or such that wear it in their garments, embroidered with it; or rather in their purses, who are loaded with this thick clay, abound with it. The Targum is,

"all that are rich in substance shall be destroyed.''

q המכתש "mortarii", Vatablus, Tigurine version; "cavi", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "loci concavi", Calvin. r Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 163. s De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 1. t נדמה "conticuit", V. L. "in silentium redactus est", Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh - Literally, “Mortar” , “in which,” Jerome says, “corn is pounded; a hollow vessel, and fit for the use of medical men, in which properly ptisans are wont to be beaten (or made). Striking is it, that Scripture saith not, ‘who dwell in the valley or in the alley,’ but who “dwell in the mortar,” because as corn, when the pestle striketh, is bruised, so the army of the enemy shall rush down upon you” (Jerome). The place intended is probably so much of the valley of the Tyropoeon, which intersected Jerusalem from north to south, as was enclosed by the second wall, on the north, and the first wall on the south. The valley “extended as far as the fountain of Siloam,” and united with the valley of Jehoshaphat a little below Ophel. It was “full of houses,” and, from its name as well as from its situation, it was probably the scene of petty merchandise, where the occasions in which men could and did break the law and offend God, were the more continual, because they entered into their daily life, and were a part of it. The sound of the pestle was continually heard there; another sound should thereafter be heard, when they should not bruise, but be themselves bruised. The name “Maktesh” was probably chosen to express how their false hopes, grounded on the presence of God’s temple among them while by their sins they profaned it, should be turned into true fears. They had been and thought themselves “Mikdash,” “a holy place,. sanctuary;” they should be Maktesh , wherein all should be utterly bruised in pieces.

Jerome: “Whoso considereth the calamities of that siege, and how the city was pressed and hemmed in, will feel how aptly he calls them “the inhabitants of a mortar;” for, as grains of corn are brought together into a mortar, to the end that, when the pestle descendeth, being unable to fly off, they may be bruised, so the people flowing together, out of all the countries of Judaea, was narrowed in by a sudden siege, and through the savage cruelty of the above leaders of the sedition, was unutterably tortured from within, more than by the enemy without.”

For all the merchant people are cut down - (Literally, “the people of Canaan”) that is Ch.: “they who in deeds are like the people of Canaan,” according to that , “Thou art of Canaan and not of Judah,” and, “Thy father is an Amorite and thy mother a Hittite” . So our Lord says to the reprobate Jews, “Ye are of your father the devil” John 8:44.

All they that bear silver are cut off - (Literally, “all laden with”). The silver, wherewith they lade themselves, being gotten amiss, is a load upon them, weighing them down until they are destroyed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zephaniah 1:11. Maktesh — Calmet says this signifies a mortar, or a rock in form of a mortar, and was the name of a quarter of Jerusalem where they hulled rice, corn, &c., according to St. Jerome. Some think the city of Jerusalem is meant, where the inhabitants should be beat and pounded to death as grain is pounded in a mortar.

Newcome translates it, the lower city, and considers it the valley in Jerusalem, which divided the upper from the lower city.

They that bear silver — The merchants, moneychangers, usurers, rich men.