11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
11 Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders
11 Wail, you shopkeepers on Market Street! Moneymaking has had its day. The god Money is dead.
11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh!
11 Wail in sorrow, all you who live in the market area, for all the merchants and traders will be destroyed.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Zephaniah 1:11
Commentary on Zephaniah 1:7-13
(Read Zephaniah 1:7-13)
God's day is at hand; the punishment of presumptuous sinners is a sacrifice to the justice of God. The Jewish royal family shall be reckoned with for their pride and vanity; and those that leap on the threshold, invading their neighbours' rights, and seizing their possessions. The trading people and the rich merchants are called to account. Secure and careless people are reckoned with. They are secure and easy; they say in their heart, the Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil; that is, they deny his dispensing rewards and punishments. But in the day of the Lord's judgment, it will clearly appear that those who perish, fall a sacrifice to Divine justice for breaking God's law, and because they have no interest by faith in the Redeemer's atoning sacrifice.