Zephaniah 1:4

I will also stretch out mine hand] cp. the similar powerful refrain in Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 9:21. All traces of Baalism, together with the 'Chemarim' (RV), the black-robed priests of Baal are first to be destroyed, as well as the wicked priests of Jehovah, who degraded His worship.

5, 6. The sweeping judgment and reformation will also affect those who follow the example of their Assyrian masters and worship the stars upon the housetops (cp. 2 Kings 23:5; 2 Kings 23:12; Ezekiel 8:16), those who bow down before the moon (Heb. Jehovah, but cp. Jeremiah 8:2; Deuteronomy 17:3, and the parallelism), those who swear fealty to the Ammonite god, Milcom, and all those apostates who have ceased to worship Jehovah.

7. Jehovah's Day is here conceived of as a day of judgment, as in Amos 5:18, and is likened to a great sacrificial feast: cp. 1 Samuel 9:13, and the guests are Judah's enemies: cp. for the same figure of speech, Isaiah 13:3.

8. The chief crime of the princes in the prophet's eyes is the introduction of foreign customs: see Isaiah 2:6.