Zephaniah 2:6 (BSB)

So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

From Zephaniah 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Zephaniah 2:6

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Zephaniah 2:6: The Prophet confirms what he has before said respecting the future vengeance of God, which was now nigh at hand to the Moabites and other neighboring nations, who had been continually harassing the miserable Jews. Hence, he says, that that whole region would become the habitation of sheep.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Zephaniah 2:4-7: The prophet here comes to foretel what share the neighbouring nations should have in the destruction made upon those parts of the world by Nebuchadnezzar and his victorious Chaldees, as others of the prophets did at that time, which is designed, 1.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Zephaniah 2:6: And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds That tract of land which lay on the coast of the Mediterranean sea, inhabited by the Philistines, should now become so desolate, that instead of towns and cities full of merchants and sea faring persons, and houses full of inhabitants, and warehouses full of goods, there should now only be seen a few huts...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Zephaniah 2:6: dwellings and cottages for shepherds--rather, "dwellings with cisterns" (that is, water-tanks dug in the earth) for shepherds. Instead of a thick population and tillage, the region shall become a pasturage for nomad shepherds' flocks. The Hebrew for "dug cisterns," Ceroth, seems a play on sounds, alluding to their name Cherethites (Zep 2:5): Their land shall become what their national name implies, a land of cisterns.