Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Zephaniah 3:7
I said — I thought (speaking after the manner of men). Thou — O Jerusalem. Fear me — For the many and great judgments executed upon others. I punished them — In some measure.
I said — I thought (speaking after the manner of men). Thou — O Jerusalem. Fear me — For the many and great judgments executed upon others. I punished them — In some measure.
Verse 7. _SURELY THOU WILT FEAR ME_] After so many displays of my sovereign power and judgments. _BUT THEY ROSE EARLY_] And instead of returning to God, they practised every abomination. They were di...
I SAID, SURELY THOU WILT FEAR ME - God speaks of things here, as they are in their own nature. “It could not but be,” that in the very presence of the Hand of God, destroying others but as yet sparing...
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...
CORRUPTED, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 6:12, same word). App-92....
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...
God's purpose in these judgments on the nations was that Israel should take warning from them and receive instruction. _I said_ Or, _I thought;_Jeremiah 3:19. For _their dwelling_read HER dwelling. _...
_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...
DISCOURSE: 1229 WHAT RECOMPENCE WE MAY EXPECT FOR OUR NEGLECT OF GOD Zephaniah 3:7. _I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoeve...
THOU WILT RECEIVE INSTRUCTION— _Thou,_ that is, _Jerusalem,_ whom, nevertheless, the examples of the neighbouring nations, whom God had destroyed, Zephaniah 3:6 profited not. Instead of, _But they ros...
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...
The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. The Jews regard not God's justice...
SO THEIR DWELLING.. PUNISHED THEM] LXX renders, 'And nothing that I have enjoined her will be cut off from her sight.'...
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...
I SAID, SURELY THOU WILT FEAR ME... — Better, _I said, Wouldest thou only fear me? wouldest thou receive correction? then should her dwelling-place not be destroyed, according to all that I have appoi...
(5-7) In contradistinction to this universal corruption, Jehovah daily exemplifies the law of righteousness, yet sinners are not moved to repentance (Zephaniah 3:5). He sets forth the great judgments...
אָמַ֜רְתִּי אַךְ ־תִּירְאִ֤י אֹותִי֙ תִּקְחִ֣י מוּסָ֔ר...
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...
I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but (e) they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings. (e) The...
_But. Septuagint, "be prepared, rise early, all their grapes are corrupt." (Haydock) --- I had reason to expect an amendment, when so many nations had perished before their eyes. (Calmet) --- They how...
"I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I said, Su...
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...
I SAID, SURELY THOU WILT FEAR ME,.... This is spoken after the manner of men; as if God should say within himself, and reason in his own mind, upon a view of things, surely the people of the Jews will...
I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings. Ver. 7. _I...
_I have cut off the nations_ I have executed vengeance upon that great city Nineveh, Zephaniah 2:15, and have brought my judgments nearer to you, by giving up your brethren of the ten tribes into the...
I said, Surely thou wilt fear Me, the kindness and tenderness of the warning being emphasized; THOU WILT RECEIVE INSTRUCTION, if only thou wouldst suffer thyself to be taught!. SO THEIR DWELLING SHOUL...
THE OBDURACY OF THE CAPITAL CITY...
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...
I SAID; I thought, (speaking as man would,) I concluded what was likely, what I might expect. SURELY THOU, O Jerusalem, O Judah, wilt fear me, for the many and great judgments executed upon others in...
Zephaniah 3:7 said H559 (H8804) fear H3372 (H8799) receive H3947 (H8799) dwelling H4583 off H3772 ...
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....
FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
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...
_I have cut off the nations._ TERRIBLE CALAMITIES IN HUMAN HISTORY In these verses the prophet sums up all that he had said in the preceding verses of this chapter, and thus closes his admonition to...
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....
ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:7 God calls Jerusalem to FEAR, that is, to have respectful awe at his power (Zephaniah 2:11;...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 3:5.] The cause not with God. He is very near, declares his displeasure with sin, and daily brings all things to light. MORNING] Lit. in the morning, in the morning. SHAME...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:6; 2 Chronicles 32:1; 2 Chronicles 32:2; 2 Chronicles 33:11;...