Zephaniah 3:2

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 salutary admonition, and refusing to be reformed by correction (). SHE TRUSTED NOT IN THE LORD. Distrust in the Lord, as if He were insufficient, is the parent of all superstitions and wickednesses (Calvin). SHE DREW NOT NEAR TO HER GOD - though God was specially "nigh unto" her () as "her God," "in all things that" she might "call upon him for," yet she draw not near to Him, but gratuitously estranged herself from Him....

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 strongest reasons to do it; still they persisted in disobedience. Alas, that men often are more active in doing wickedness than believers are in doing good....

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 afflictions, and derived no manner of good from these chastisements. _SHE TRUSTED NOT IN THE LORD_] Did not consider him as the _Fountain_ whence all help and salvation should come; and rather sought for support from _man_ and _herself_, than from God. _SHE DREW NOT NEAR TO HER GOD._] Did not worship him; did not walk in his ways; did not make _prayer_ and supplication to him....

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, she, in the declining age of the state and deepening evil, turned not unto Him, as in the time of the judges, nor ceased to do evil. IN THE LORD SHE TRUSTED NOT - But in Assyria or Egypt or her idols. Our practical relation to God is summed up in the four words, “Mis-trust self; trust God.” Man reverses this, and when “self-trust” has of course failed him, then he “mistrusts God” . “Such rarely ask of God, what they hope they may obtain from man. They strain every nerve of their soul to obtain what they want; canvass, flatter, fawn, bribe, court favor; and betake themselves to God when all human help fails. They would be indebted, not to God, but to their own diligence. For the more they recei...

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 addressed to Jerusalem, as is seen by Zephaniah 3:2. FILTHY; rather, _rebellious, i.e._ against God. The LXX; mistaking the word, renders ἐπιφανής, "notable." So the Syriac. Jerome has _provocatrix. _The true sense is seen by the expansion of the term in Zephaniah 3:2. polluted by her many sins. Jerome, follo

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 voice of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, who gave notice of his coming; nor to the voice of Christ himself, who stretched out his hand all the day to a disobedient and gainsaying people; nor to the voice of his apostles, whose doctrines they contradicted and blasphemed; and put away the word of God from them, thereby judging themselves unworthy of eternal life: SHE RECEIVED NOT CORRECTION; by the rod, by the judgments of God upon her: or "instruction" y; by the Gospel preached to her inhabitants. So the Targum interprets it, "she received not doctrine;'' the doctrine of baptism, repentance, and remission of sins, preached by John; but rejected the counsel of God by him against t...

TRUSTED (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

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 (Zephaniah 2:8) 4. The judgment of the other nations (Zephaniah 2:11) 5. The woe and warning to Jerusalem and His people (Zephaniah 3:1) Zephaniah 2:1. As we found it in Joel, so it is here. In view of the co

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 constant goodness and loving-kindness Jerusalem has shown herself defiant and rebellious, deep-stained with guilt, and all the while heedless of instruction and correction, her rulers rapacious as evening wolves, her prophets boastful and faithless, giving forth their own imaginings as the very word of God, and her priests indifferent alike to the claims of holiness and the light of revelation from above. While crimes like these pollute her, she cannot escape the judgment of Yahweh; for He is righteous, and morning by morning bringeth forth justice as unfailingly as the light. The nations He has already destroyed and left without inhabitant are abiding witnesses to the righteousness of Yahweh. He...

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. Not the same word as in Zephaniah 3:12. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SHE DREW NOT NEAR, &C. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "neither unto her God hath she drawn near". GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....