Zephaniah 1:3

Zephaniah 1:3 particularises the "all things" of Zephaniah 1:2, cattle and fowl and fishes of the sea, and man. Hosea 4:3, "Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; yea the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away." Similarly Ezekiel 38:19, "Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; so that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence"; cf. Isaiah 2:19-21.

the stumblingblocks … wicked The words are rather obscure, and seem to disturb the connexion. The term rendered "stumblingblock" occurs again Isaiah 3:6, "let this ruin(the country in anarchy) be under thy hand," and Hitzig would understand it here in a somewhat similar sense, the houses, &c. "destined to become heaps" (Job 15:28). The somewhat similar word usually rendered "stumblingblock" is used in the sense of idol, or any object or practice of false worship (Ezekiel 14:3-4; Ezekiel 14:7), and this sense is more probable here. But the clause introduces an idea not in harmony with the rest of the verse.