Discovery BoxZephaniah 1:11 
Context1:11 Wail, you who live in the market district, 1
for all the merchants 2 will disappear 3
and those who count money 4 will be removed. 5
Zephaniah 1:18
Context1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them
in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment.
The whole earth 6 will be consumed by his fiery wrath. 7
Indeed, 8 he will bring terrifying destruction 9 on all who live on the earth.” 10
1 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.
2 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).
3 tn Or “be destroyed.”
4 tn Heb “weigh out silver.”
5 tn Heb “be cut off.” In the Hebrew text of v. 11b the perfect verbal forms emphasize the certainty of the judgment, speaking of it as if it were already accomplished.
6 tn Or “land” (cf. NEB). This same word also occurs at the end of the present verse.
7 tn Or “passion”; traditionally, “jealousy.”
8 tn Or “for.”
9 tn Heb “complete destruction, even terror, he will make.”
10 tn It is not certain where the
