4 Heb “And the stumbling blocks [or, “ruins”] with the evil”; or “the things that make the evil stumble.” The line does not appear in the original form of the ; it may be a later scribal addition. The present translation assumes the “stumbling blocks” are idolatrous images of animals, birds, and fish. See J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (), 167, and Adele Berlin, Zephaniah (), .
5 Heb “cut off.”

In other versions

“I will sweep away man and beast;

I will sweep away the birds of the heavens

and the fish of the sea,

and the rubble with the wicked.

I will cut off mankind

from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

“I will sweep away both man and beast;

I will sweep away the birds in the sky

and the fish in the sea—

and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.”

“When I destroy all mankind

on the face of the earth,”

declares the Lord,

I will sweep away people and animals;

I will sweep away the birds of the sky

and the fish of the sea,

and the ruins along with the wicked.

I will cut off mankind

from the face of the earth.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

“I will sweep away people and animals alike.

I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea.

I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble,

and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

“I will destroy humanity and beast;

I will destroy the birds of the sky

and the fish of the sea,

and the stumbling blocks with the wicked.

And I will cut off humankind

from the face of the earth”—a declaration of Yahweh.

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.

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