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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Zephaniah 1:2-6

O "I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. (3) I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. (4) I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests; (5) And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham; (6) And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him."

The captivity of Babylon, was to reach both to men and beast - A type of sin in the original fall of man, which brought a curse upon the ground, and for which the whole creation groaned, and still groans. Genesis 3:1; Romans 8:22.

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