Zephaniah 1:10 “On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate,…”

Zephaniah 1:10

On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

World English Bible

In that day, says the LORD, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

American Standard Version

And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

Geneva Bible 1599

And in that day, saith the Lord, there shall be a noise, and cry from the fishgate, and an howling from the second gate, and a great destruction from the hilles.

Darby Translation

And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, and a howling from the second [quarter], and a great crashing from the hills.

Young's Literal Translation

And there hath been in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, The noise of a cry from the fish-gate, And of a howling from the Second, And of great destruction from the hills.

Bible in Basic English

And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

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Cross references

“in”

Zephaniah 1:7 Zephaniah 1:15 Jeremiah 39:2

Zephaniah 1:7 · BSB

Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.

Zephaniah 1:15 · BSB

That 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,

Jeremiah 39:2 · BSB

And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

“the noise”

Amos 8:3 Jeremiah 4:19–21 Isaiah 59:11 Jeremiah 4:31 Isaiah 22:4 Isaiah 22:5

Amos 8:3 · BSB

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

Jeremiah 4:19–21 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 59:11 · BSB

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Jeremiah 4:31 · BSB

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the mu…

Isaiah 22:4 · BSB

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Isaiah 22:5 · BSB

For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision— of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

“the fish gate”

2 Chronicles 33:14 Nehemiah 3:3

2 Chronicles 33:14 · BSB

After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stati…

Nehemiah 3:3 · BSB

The Fish Gate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah. They laid its beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

“the second”

2 Kings 22:14 2 Chronicles 32:22

2 Kings 22:14 · BSB

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second…

2 Chronicles 32:22 · BSB

So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hands of King Sennacherib of Assyria and all others, and He gave them rest on every side.

“from”

2 Samuel 5:7 2 Samuel 5:9 2 Chronicles 3:1

2 Samuel 5:7 · BSB

Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).

2 Samuel 5:9 · BSB

So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

2 Chronicles 3:1 · BSB

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

11Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.

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