Zephaniah 1:3

“I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) ¹  I will remove ²  humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

Isa 27:9; Jer 4:23-29; Jer 12:4; Eze 7:19; Eze 14:3-7; Eze 14:13-21; Eze 15:6-8; Eze 44:12; Ho 4:3; Ho 14:3,8; Mic 5:11-14; Zec 13:2; Mt 23:39; Re 2:14

¹ tn Heb “And the stumbling blocks [or, “ruins”] with the evil”; or “the things that make the evil stumble.” The line does not appear in the original form of the LXX; it may be a later scribal addition. The present translation assumes the “stumbling blocks” are idolatrous images of animals, birds, and fish. See J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (OTL), 167, and Adele Berlin, Zephaniah (AB), 73-74.

² tn Heb “cut off.”