CHAPTER III.
Judgment, or "condemnation." Septuagint, "iniquities," (Calmet) nailing to the cross the handwriting that was against thee. (Haydock) --- God does not treat thee with rigour. He will be thy king. The Jews had no king for a long time. But the true Israel, of whom the prophet speaks, is continually ruled and fed by Jesus Christ, who imparts his graces abundantly. (Calmet)
Verse Zephaniah 3:15. _THE KING OF ISRAEL,_ EVEN _THE LORD,_ IS _IN THE MIDST OF_ _THEE_] They have never had a _king_ since the death of Zedekiah, and never shall have one till they have the _King Me...
THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY THY JUDGMENTS - Her own, because brought upon her by her sins. But when God takes away the chastisements in mercy, He removes and forgives the sin too. Else, to remove “the ju...
CHAPTER 3:8-20 Judgment and Glory _ 1. The waiting for the end (Zephaniah 3:8) _ 2. The glory that follows (Zephaniah 3:9) Zephaniah 3:8. “Therefore wait for me, saith Jehovah, for the day when I a...
THE DELIVERANCE OF JERUSALEM, AND RENOWN OF REDEEMED ISRAEL. Zephaniah 3:8; Zephaniah 3:11. Let Yahweh's faithful people wait patiently till the day when He shall stand as a witness against the nation...
ENEMY. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "foes" (plural) IN THE MIDST, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 7:21). SEE. The Codex Hillel, quoted in the _Massorah,...
The Joy of the Redeemed People in the Lord's Presence among them The prophet looks forward to the time when all Zion's afflictions shall be over, when she shall be redeemed and all her captive childr...
_taken away thy judgments_ The prophet transports himself and his people forward into the time of their final restoration and blessedness. The "judgments" of Zion are all those that have fallen on her...
_THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE -- ZEPHANIAH 3:14-17:_ The expression "Daughter of Zion" refers to Jerusalem and her people. Everyone in Jerusalem could celebrate and shout because they had been deliv...
DISCOURSE: 1231 THE DUTY OF THANKFULNESS FOR GOD’S MERCIES Zephaniah 3:14. _Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The Lord hath t...
PORTRAIT OF THE REDEEMED. Zephaniah 3:14-20 RV. Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. Jehovah hath taken away thy judgements, he h...
The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY THY JUDG...
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE EVIL RULERS OF JERUSALEM, AND ITS ULTIMATE PURIFICATION AND RESTORATION Like Amos and Micah, the prophet sternly denounces the crimes of the ruling classes in Jerusalem, points o...
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 (It will be) very sad for the city (called Jerusalem). (It has become a city where people) do not obey (God). It (is) dirt...
TAKEN AWAY THY JUDGMENTS. — _i.e._, removed what He had “appointed concerning them” (Zephaniah 3:7) in the way of punishments. THE KING OF ISRAEL. — The recognition of Jehovah as _king_ is elsewhere a...
(14-20) The blessedness of Jerusalem when she has been thus brought through suffering to glory....
הֵסִ֤יר יְהוָה֙ מִשְׁפָּטַ֔יִךְ פִּנָּ֖ה אֹֽיְבֵ֑ךְ מֶ֣לֶךְ...
SO AS BY FIRE Zephaniah 3:1 THE third chapter of the Book of Zephaniah consists of two sections, of which only the first, Zephaniah 3:1, is a genuine work of the prophet; while the second, Zephaniah...
FULLNESS OF SALVATION Zephaniah 3:1-20 _The sins of Jerusalem_, Zephaniah 3:1-7. Uninfluenced by judgments upon other nations, Jerusalem pursued her course, morally impure, oppressive, refusing instr...
In this chapter the prophet yet more clearly set forth the sin of the people, and spoke of the hopelessness of the case from the human standpoint. This gave him his opportunity to announce the victory...
The LORD hath taken away thy (k) judgments, he hath cast out thine (l) enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of (m) thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. (k) That is, the pu...
"Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. (15) The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Isra...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zephaniah like Habakkuk will be found to have some points of resemblance with the prophet Jeremiah; and this not merely in the fact that the Chaldean is the...
SUMMARY TO ZEPHANIAH Amid this judgment of the nation Jerusalem holds the chief place. In chapter 3, the Spirit of God, while laying open the iniquity which occasioned it, turns towards the remnant, a...
THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY THY JUDGMENTS,.... Both outward and inward; not only exile, poverty, contempt and reproach among the nations of the earth; but hardness of heart, blindness of mind, impenitenc...
The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. Ver. 15. _The Lord hath taken a...
_Sing, O daughter of Zion_ At that time, O daughter of Zion, thou shalt break forth into loud and joyful praises to Jehovah, for his goodness toward thee; and thou mayest even now do it, for thou shal...
The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, the sentences of condemnation which had rightly been spoken upon her on account of her sins; HE HATH CAST OUT THINE ENEMY, sweeping away the world-power which p...
THE SALVATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION...
14-20 After the promises of taking away sin, follow promises of taking away trouble. When the cause is removed, the effect will cease. What makes a people holy, will make them happy. The precious pro...
THE LORD; who kills and makes alive, acquits or condemns, and none can reverse the judgment. HATH TAKEN AWAY THY JUDGMENTS; abolished and put an end to thy sufferings, the judgments thy sins brought u...
Zephaniah 3:15 LORD H3068 away H5493 (H8689) judgments H4941 out H6437 (H8765) enemy H341 (H8802) King...
THE SING OF THE REDEEMED (ZEPHANIAH 3:14). Zephaniah 3:14 ‘Sing, O daughter of Zion, shout, O Israel, Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem, YHWH has taken away your jud...
THE MIDST OF THEE That this, and all like passages in the Prophets (see "Kingdom (Old Testament)," (Genesis 1:26); (Zechariah 12:8) cannot refer to anything which occurred at the first coming of Chri...
CONTENTS: Jerusalem's moral state in time of Zephaniah. The coming judgment of nations and kingdom blessing for restored Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The end of nations that have continued to...
Zephaniah 3:1. _Woe to the oppressing city,_ to Jerusalem, now polluted with every crime, and every year growing a carcase for the eagles. Zephaniah 3:6. _I have cut off the nations._ The Chaldaic rea...
_Sing, O daughter of Zion._ JOY: HUMAN AND DIVINE Here is a call to the regenerated inhabitants of Jerusalem to exult in the mercy of God, who has wrought their deliverance. I. The joy of the regen...
ZEPHANIAH 3:9 Anticipation of Hope. God the judge is also God the gracious. He intends for the nations and Judah to turn to him (vv. Zephaniah 3:9). This will cause rejoicing (vv....
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:15 Rejoicing is appropriate because of the presence of the Lord, the real KING OF ISRAEL, among his people. The human kings of Israel and Judah served only as representat...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 3:14.] Fulness of joy indicated by repetition of words. ZEPHANIAH 3:15.] The reasons given for exultation. Evil removed, enemies destroyed, full enjoyment of God’s presen...
EXPOSITION. ZEPHANIAH 3:1 § 6. The prophet turns to Jerusalem, and warns her that, if God punishes the heathen, he will not spare the hardened sinners in Judah. ZEPHANIAH 3:1 WOE TO HER! This is ad...
Now the Lord speaks against Jerusalem. Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she receive not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not...
Amos 9:15; Ezekiel 37:24; Ezekiel 37:25; Ezekiel 37:26; Ezekiel 39:
Taken away — Abolished, and put an end to the judgments thy sins brought upon thee. Thine enemy — The Babylonian. Is in the midst — He is returned to redeem and govern thee. Any more — While thy carri...