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Zep_3:6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Ver. 6. I have cut off the nations] And hanged them up in gibbets, as it were, before your eyes, for your admonition, ut ruina maiorum sit cautela minorum, that their destruction might be your instruction; that, seeing your neighbour’s house on fire, you might look to your own; that, observing others to suffer shipwreck, you might see to your tackling. This is the use God expects we should make of his judgments upon others, Luk_13:3; Luk_13:5; Luk_17:26; Luk_17:29 Mat_12:13; Mat_12:41-42 1Co_10:1-2, and surely he deserveth to be made an example that will not take example by others.
Their towers are desolate] Or, their corners, sc. of their munitions, whereon towers were set. Or, their extremities, q.d. I have overturned them from one end to another. Drusius and Ribera interpreteth it of their princes. {See Trapp on "Zep_1:6"}
I made their streets waste, &c.] See Zep_2:5-6; Zep_2:14-15. To the end, that when my judgments were thus on the earth, the inhabitants of the world (but especially of the Church) might learn righteousness, Isa_26:9; that the righteous, seeing the vengeance, might wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, Psa_59:10, taking warning by his harms. Observe here, by the way, what great account God makes of his people, since for their instance and instruction he thus wasteth the wicked; like as the Persian kings, when their sons had committed a fault, made their servants to be beaten before them.