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Zephaniah 1:11b

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1:11Wail, you who live in the market district,33

for all the merchants34 will disappear35

and those who count money36 will be removed.37

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Footnotes

  1. 33 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. 34 Or perhaps “Canaanites.” Cf. 489 I and II כְּנַעֲנִי. Translators have rendered the term either as “the merchant people” (, ), “the traders” (), “merchants” (, ), or, alternatively, “the people of Canaan” ().
  3. 35 Or “be destroyed.”
  4. 36 Heb “weigh out silver.”
  5. 37 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.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar!

For all the traders are no more;

all who weigh out silver are cut off.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Wail, you who live in the market district;

all your merchants will be wiped out,

all who trade with silver will be destroyed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Wail, you residents of the Hollow,

for all the merchants will be silenced;

all those loaded with silver will be cut off.

NLTNew Living Translation

Wail in sorrow, all you who live in the market area,

for all the merchants and traders will be destroyed.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The inhabitants of the Mortar shall wail,

for all the traders have perished;

all who trade with silver have been cut off.

KJV 1900King James Version

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh,

For all the merchant people are cut down;

All they that bear silver are cut off.