1. Zephaniah 1:17 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

When did the punishment of blindness find a fulfillment?

Zephaniah 1:17 (ESV)

17 I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

God’s punishment of blindness found a most dramatic fulfillment in Nebuchadnezzar’s treatment of Zedekiah, recorded in 2 Kings 25:6–7. Nebuchadnezzar first murdered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes and then blinded him.1