Zephaniah 1:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֩ בַיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה ק֤וֹל צְעָקָה֙ מִשַּׁ֣עַר הַדָּגִ֔ים וִֽילָלָ֖ה מִן־הַמִּשְׁנֶ֑ה וְשֶׁ֥בֶר גָּד֖וֹל מֵהַגְּבָעֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

wəhāyāh in-hayyôm hahûʾ, nəʾum-YHWH, qôl ṣəʿāqāh from-šaʿar haddāḡîm, wîlālāh from-hammišneh, wəšeḇer gāḏôl from-haggəḇāʿôṯ.

Grammar Details

*wəhāyāh*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and it will be
*hayyôm*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the day
*hahûʾ*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - that
*nəʾum*: construct state, masculine singular - declaration/oracle of
*YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
*qôl*: noun, masculine singular construct - sound of
*ṣəʿāqāh*: noun, feminine singular - outcry/cry
*šaʿar*: noun, masculine singular construct - gate of
*haddāḡîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the fish
*wîlālāh*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and wailing
*hammišneh*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the Second Quarter (district)
*wəšeḇer*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and crash/breaking of
*gāḏôl*: adjective, masculine singular - great/loud
*haggəḇāʿôṯ*: noun, feminine plural with definite article - the hills

Word Meanings

*qôl ṣəʿāqāh*: sound of outcry/cry of distress
*šaʿar haddāḡîm*: Fish Gate (a gate in Jerusalem)
*hammišneh*: the Second Quarter/New Quarter (district of Jerusalem)
*wəšeḇer*: breaking/crash/destruction
*haggəḇāʿôṯ*: the hills (possibly referring to hills in Jerusalem)

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 33:14 : 14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
Neh 3:3 : 3 And the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.
2 Kgs 22:14 : 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they communed with her.
2 Chr 3:1 : 1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where [Jehovah] appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chr 32:22 : 22 Thus Jehovah saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.
2 Sam 5:7 : 7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
2 Sam 5:9 : 9 And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
Isa 22:4-5 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.
Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Jer 4:19-21 : 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.
Jer 39:2 : 2 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)
Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
Zeph 1:7 : 7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord Jehovah; for the day of Jehovah is at hand: for Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath consecrated his guests.
Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

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