Zephaniah 1 · Verse 13

Zephaniah 1:13

Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Zephaniah 1:13, King James Version

Zephaniah 1:13 in other translations

BSBTheir wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
WEBTheir wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
ASVAnd their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.
YLTAnd their wealth hath been for a spoil, And their houses for desolation, And they have built houses, and do not inhabit, And they have planted vineyards, And they do not drink their wine.
DARBYAnd their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation; and they shall build houses, and not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and not drink the wine thereof.
BBEAnd their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.
WebsterTherefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine of them.

What does Zephaniah 1:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. Therefore their goods shall become a booty, &c.--Fulfilling the prophecy in De 28:30, 39 (compare Am 5:11).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 Their goods (in which they trust) shall become a booty - To the Chaldeans. They shall have no profit of all their labors. The houses they have built they shall not inhabit; of the wine of the vineyards they have planted, they shall not drink. See Amo 5:11, where we find the same evils threatened.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Zephaniah 1:7-13

God's day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is a sacrifice to the justice of God. The Jewish royal family shall be reckoned with for their pride and vanity; and those that leap on the threshold, invading their neighbours' rights, and seizing their possessions. The trading people and the rich merchants are called to account. Secure and careless people are reckoned with. They are secure and easy; they…

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Zephaniah 1:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהָיָ֤הve.ha.Yahand it will becomeH1961
חֵילָם֙chei.Lamwealth theirH2428
לִמְשִׁסָּ֔הlim.shi.Sah<into> plunderH4933
וּבָתֵּיהֶ֖םu.va.tei.Hemand houses theirH1004
לִשְׁמָמָ֑הlish.ma.Mah<into> a desolationH8077
וּבָנ֤וּu.va.Nuand they will buildH1129
בָתִּים֙va.TimhousesH1004
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808
יֵשֵׁ֔בוּye.She.vuthey will dwell [in them]H3427
וְנָטְע֣וּve.na.te.'Uand they will plantH5193
כְרָמִ֔יםkhe.ra.MimvineyardsH3754
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808
יִשְׁתּ֖וּyish.Tuthey will drinkH8354
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יֵינָֽם\׃yei.Namwine theirH3196

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Cross references for Zephaniah 1:13

  • Amos 5:11

    Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

  • Micah 6:15

    Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

  • Deuteronomy 28:30

    Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Deuteronomy 28:39

    Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

  • Ezekiel 7:21

    And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

  • Jeremiah 15:13

    Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

  • Jeremiah 9:19

    For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

  • Isaiah 6:11

    Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Zephaniah 1:9

    In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

  • Isaiah 24:1-3

    Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

  • Jeremiah 12:10-13

    Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
their goods.
9; Isa 6:11; 24:1-3; Jer 4:7,20; 5:17; 9:11,19; 12:10-13; Eze 7:19,21
Eze 22:31; Mic 3:12
build.
De 28:30,39,51; Isa 5:8,9; 65:21,22; Am 5:11; Mic 6:15

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Context

  • Zephaniah 1:12

    And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.

  • Zephaniah 1:13

    Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

  • Zephaniah 1:14

    The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

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Zephaniah 1:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Será por tanto saqueada su hacienda, y sus casas asoladas: y edificarán casas, mas no las habitarán; y plantarán viñas, mas no beberán el vino de ellas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et leurs biens deviendront une proie, et leurs maisons, une désolation, et ils bâtiront des maisons et ne les habiteront pas, et ils planteront des vignes et n’en boiront pas le vin.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ihr Vermögen wird zum Raube, und ihre Häuser werden zur Wüste werden; und sie werden Häuser bauen und sie nicht bewohnen, und Weinberge pflanzen und deren Wein nicht trinken.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et erit fortitudo eorum in direptionem, et domus eorum in desertum: et ædificabunt domos, et non habitabunt; et plantabunt vineas, et non bibent vinum earum.