Text -- Zephaniah 1:11 (NET)

1:11 Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Zep 1:11

¹ tn Heb “in the Mortar.” The Hebrew term מַכְתֵּשׁ (makhtesh, “mortar”) is apparently here the name of a low-lying area where economic activity took place.

² tn Or perhaps “Canaanites.” Cf. BDB 489 s.v. I and II כְּנַעֲנִי. Translators have rendered the term either as “the merchant people” (KJV, NKJV), “the traders” (NRSV), “merchants” (NEB, NIV), or, alternatively, “the people of Canaan” (NASB).

³ tn Or “be destroyed.”

⁴ tn Heb “weigh out silver.”

⁵ tn Heb “be cut off.” In the Hebrew text of v. 11b the perfect verbal forms emphasize the certainty of the judgment, speaking of it as if it were already accomplished.