Zephaniah 1:2

Zephaniah 1:2-7. The Universal Judgment of the Day of the Lord

2. from off the land from off the face of the ground, i.e. the earth, cf. Zephaniah 1:3. The judgment is indiscriminate, all that lives shall be swept away. Though it is men against whom God's anger burns, the anger once kindled devours round about and consumes all created things. The sphere of man's life, the realm of his rule (Psalms 8:6-8), is involved with himself in a common destruction.