Zep 2:15 | JFB | STEP | 15. Nothing then seemed more improbable than that the capital of so vast an empire, a city sixty miles in compass, with walls one hundred feet high, and so thick that three chariots could go abreast on them, and with fifteen hundred towers, should be so totally destroyed that its site is with difficulty discovered. Yet so it is, as the prophet foretold. there is none beside me-- This peculiar phrase, expressing self-gratulation as if peerless, is plainly adopted from . The later prophets, when the spirit of prophecy was on the verge of departing, leaned more on the predictions of their predecessors. hiss-- in astonishment at a desolation so great and sudden ( ); also in derision ( ; ; ).

‏ Zephaniah 2:15

15. Nothing then seemed more improbable than that the capital of so vast an empire, a city sixty miles in compass, with walls one hundred feet high, and so thick that three chariots could go abreast on them, and with fifteen hundred towers, should be so totally destroyed that its site is with difficulty discovered. Yet so it is, as the prophet foretold.

there is none beside me--This peculiar phrase, expressing self-gratulation as if peerless, is plainly adopted from Is 47:8. The later prophets, when the spirit of prophecy was on the verge of departing, leaned more on the predictions of their predecessors.

hiss--in astonishment at a desolation so great and sudden (1Ki 9:8); also in derision (Job 27:23; La 2:15; Eze 27:36).