George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Zephaniah 3:2
Lord. She had recourse rather to the princes of Assyria and of Egytp, which proved her ruin.
Lord. She had recourse rather to the princes of Assyria and of Egytp, which proved her ruin.
Verse Zephaniah 3:2. _SHE OBEYED NOT THE VOICE_] Of conscience, of God, and of his prophets. _SHE RECEIVED NOT CORRECTION_] Did not profit by his chastisements; was uneasy and ill-tempered under her...
SHE OBEYED NOT THE VOICE - Of God, by the law or the prophets, teaching her His ways; and when, disobeying, He chastened her, “she received not correction,” and when He increased His chastisements, sh...
CHAPTER S 2-3:8 The Call to Repentance in View of the Judgment _ 1. The call to repentance (Zephaniah 2:1) _ 2. The judgment of the Philistines (Zephaniah 2:4) 3. The judgment of Moab and Ammon (Z...
THE SIN OF JERUSALEM CONTRASTED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF YAHWEH. From scenes of doom and desolation we are now led back in thought to the sins that drew down Yahweh's hand in wrath. Despite His const...
SHE RECEIVED NOT. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "neither hath she accepted". CORRECTION. discipline. TRUSTED. confided. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69....
Zephaniah 3:1-8. Renewed threat against Jerusalem in particular Ch. 3 returns to Jerusalem. The city is reproached as rebellious, polluted, and full of oppression (Zephaniah 3:1); disobedient to God...
_She obeyed not the voice_ i.e. the voice of God by the prophets. Jeremiah 7:23; Jeremiah 22:21. _she received not correction_ Or, _instruction_, Jeremiah 5:3. Comp....
_JERUSALEM REBELLED AGAINST GOD -- ZEPHANIAH 3:1-7:_ The people of Jerusalem and the entire nation had rebelled against God. Jerusalem had become a disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city. Those that fa...
CHAPTER XXII COMFORT AND CONSOLATION REAFFIRMATION OF JUDGEMENT. Zephaniah 3:1-8 RV. Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not co...
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. SHE RECEIVED NOT CORRECTION - Jerusalem is incurable, obstinately rejecting saluta...
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...
OBEYED NOT THE VOICE. — Better, _hearkened not to the voice_ — _i.e.,_ of Jehovah, when He addresses her, as in Zephaniah 2:1. She trusts not in Jehovah, but in her own wealth (Zephaniah 1:12); she dr...
III. (1-4) The prophet denounces the corruption and moral obduracy which characterise all classes in Jerusalem. This denunciation comes in with startling abruptness. The prophet does not even name th...
לֹ֤א שָֽׁמְעָה֙ בְּ קֹ֔ול לֹ֥א לָקְחָ֖ה מוּסָ
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...
"Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! (2) She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. (3) Her princes w...
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...
SHE OBEYED NOT THE VOICE,.... Of his servants the prophets, as the Targum, by way of explanation, adds, who warned her of her sins and of her ruin. The inhabitants of Jerusalem hearkened not to the vo...
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. Ver. 2. _She obeyed not the voice_] _sc._ Of her teachers, nor inclined her ear to th...
_Wo to her that is filthy_ (Bishop Newcome reads, _rebellious_, and the Vulgate, _provoking,_) _and polluted_ That is, defiled with various crimes; _to the oppressing city_ It is well deserving of our...
She obeyed not the voice, paying no attention to the Lord's admonitions; SHE RECEIVED NOT CORRECTION, the instruction or discipline which was intended to be of benefit to her; SHE TRUSTED NOT IN THE L...
THE OBDURACY OF THE CAPITAL CITY...
CORRECTION: Or, instruction...
1-7 The holy God hates sin most in those nearest to him. A sinful state is, and will be, a woful state. Yet they had the tokens of God's presence, and all the advantages of knowing his will, with the...
SHE OBEYED NOT THE VOICE, of the law, her prophets or her faithful priests, (which were too few, yet some there were.) nor of God, by his mercy and judgments crying loud, warning, inviting, persuading...
Zephaniah 3:2 obeyed H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 received H3947 (H8804) correction H4148 trusted H982 (H8804) LORD...
THE CONDITION OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (ZEPHANIAH 3:1). Zephaniah 3:1 ‘Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, To the oppressing city. She did not obey the voice. She did not receive correction....
TRUSTED (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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...
_She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord._ GOD’S LAMENTATIONS OF HIS PEOPLE’S INCORRIGIBLENESS There can be no doubt that the city mentioned in the first ve...
_Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! _ A RELIGIOUS CITY TERRIBLY DEGENERATE I. A professedly religious city terribly degenerated. 1. The princes are mentioned. They are...
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:1 God’s people cannot think that they will emerge unscathed on the day of the Lord. If they sin (vv. Zephaniah 3:1) and are shameless (v....
CRITICAL NOTES.] WOE] to Jerusalem; others, Nineveh. FILTHY] From a word, to straighten oneself; hence, to rebel, to be refractory. ZEPHANIAH 3:2. VOICE] In law and prophets. CORRECTION] Instruction...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:15; Ezekiel 24:13; Hebrews 10:22; Isaiah 1:5;...
The voice — Of God by his mercy and judgments crying aloud....