Zephaniah 1:16
New International Version
a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the corner towers.

New Living Translation
a day of trumpet calls and battle cries. Down go the walled cities and the strongest battlements!

English Standard Version
a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.

Berean Standard Bible
a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

King James Bible
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

New King James Version
A day of trumpet and alarm Against the fortified cities And against the high towers.

New American Standard Bible
A day of trumpet and battle cry Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.

NASB 1995
A day of trumpet and battle cry Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.

NASB 1977
A day of trumpet and battle cry, Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.

Legacy Standard Bible
A day of trumpet and loud shouting Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.

Amplified Bible
A day of trumpet and the battle cry [of invaders] Against the fortified cities And against the high corner towers (battlements).

Christian Standard Bible
a day of ram’s horn and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

American Standard Version
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The day is of the trumpet and of shouting against the fortress cities and against the corners of the high places

Brenton Septuagint Translation
a day of the trumpet and cry against the strong cities, and against the high towers.

Contemporary English Version
of trumpet calls and battle cries against fortified cities and mighty fortresses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high bulwarks.

English Revised Version
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fenced cities, and against the high battlements.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
a day of rams' horns and battle cries against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers.

Good News Translation
a day filled with the sound of war trumpets and the battle cry of soldiers attacking fortified cities and high towers.

International Standard Version
a day of trumpet and battle cry against fortified cites and watch towers.

JPS Tanakh 1917
A day of the horn and alarm, Against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.

Literal Standard Version
A day of horn and shouting against the fortified cities, | And against the high corners.

Majority Standard Bible
a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

New American Bible
A day of trumpet blasts and battle cries against fortified cities, against lofty battlements.

NET Bible
a day of trumpet blasts and battle cries. Judgment will fall on the fortified cities and the high corner towers.

New Revised Standard Version
a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.

New Heart English Bible
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

Webster's Bible Translation
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.

World English Bible
a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities and against the high battlements.

Young's Literal Translation
A day of trumpet and shouting against the fenced cities, And against the high corners.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Day of the LORD
15That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, 16a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers. 17I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:52
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

Isaiah 2:12
For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted--it will be humbled--

Isaiah 27:13
And in that day a great ram's horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

Joel 2:1
Blow the ram's horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near--

Amos 3:6
If a ram's horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?


Treasury of Scripture

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

day.

Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

Jeremiah 4:19,20
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war…

Jeremiah 6:1
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

and against.

Psalm 48:12,13
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof…

Isaiah 2:12-15
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: …

Isaiah 32:14
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

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Zephaniah 1
1. The time when Zephaniah prophesied.
2. God's severe judgments against Judah.














Verse 16. - A day of the trumpet and alarm. "Alarm" means "the sound of alarm." Among the Jews trumpets were used to announce the festivals (Numbers 29:1), and to give the signal for battle or of the approach of an enemy (Jeremiah 4:5, 19; Ezekiel 33:4). Here it is the signal of destruction (Amos 2:2). The fenced cities. The strongest fortresses shall feel the irresistible attack (Micah 5:11). The high towers. These are the turrets built at the angles of the walls for the better defence of the city, and to annoy the besiegers (Zephaniah 3:6). LXX., ἐπὶ τὰς γωνίας τὰς ὑψηλάς, "upon the lofty angles;" Vulgate, super angulos excelsos. Others take the words to mean "the battlements" on the walls. Henderson quotes Taeitus's description of the later walls of Jerusalem, "Duos colles immensum editos claudebant muri per artem obliqui aut introrsus sinuati, ut latera oppugnantium ad ictus patescerent" ('Hist.,' 5:11).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
a day
י֥וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of trumpet blast
שׁוֹפָ֖ר (šō·w·p̄ār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7782: A cornet, curved horn

and battle cry
וּתְרוּעָ֑ה (ū·ṯə·rū·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8643: Clamor, acclamation of joy, a battle-cry, clangor, of trumpets, as an alarum

against
עַ֚ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the fortified
הַבְּצֻר֔וֹת (hab·bə·ṣu·rō·wṯ)
Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 1219: To cut off, make inaccessible, enclose

cities,
הֶעָרִ֣ים (he·‘ā·rîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 5892: Excitement

and against
וְעַ֖ל (wə·‘al)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the high
הַגְּבֹהֽוֹת׃ (hag·gə·ḇō·hō·wṯ)
Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 1364: Elevated, powerful, arrogant

corner towers.
הַפִּנּ֥וֹת (hap·pin·nō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 6438: An angle, a pinnacle, a chieftain


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