Zephaniah 1:11
11 Wail, you who live in the market district, ▼
▼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.
for all the merchants ▼
▼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).
will disappear ▼▼tn Or “be destroyed.”
and those who count money ▼
▼tn Heb “weigh out silver.”
will be removed. ▼
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