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Zephaniah 3:9

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, by purifying their sinful lips and thereby enabling them to call upon Him with pure lips, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, in the true unity of a common faith which is described in John 17 and Ephesians 4, to serve Him with one consent, literally, "with one shoulder," all bearing together the pleasant yoke of Jehovah.

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See also Zephaniah 3:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 9. _WILL I TURN TO THE PEOPLE_] This promise must refer to the conversion of the Jews under the Gospel. _THAT THEY MAY ALL CALL_] That the whole nation may invoke God by Christ, and serve him w...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THEN - In the order of God’s mercies. The deliverance from Babylon was the forerunner of that of the Gospel, which was its object. The spread of the Gospel then is spoken of in the connection of G...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEN: i.e. after all that is implied in Zephaniah 3:8. Note the order of the blessings in "9, 10": Gentiles first, and Israel after; But in "18-20-", Israel first, and Gentiles after. PEOPLE. peoples...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For then … people a pure language_ THE PEOPLES A PURE LIP. The term _lip_often means "language" (Genesis 11:1), but here it seems rather to denote the organ of speech. Comp. Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 6:7, ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The conversion of the nations and of Israel Though Zephaniah 3:8 describes the universal judgment, it is closely connected with Zephaniah 3:9. The judgment is not an end in itself; the conversion of...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _WAIT UPON THE LORD -- ZEPHANIAH 3:8-13:_ God gave a very specific promise that His judgment was coming upon the Jews. He promised that He would punish them with fiery anger. God's faithful prophets h...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THEN WILL I TURN, &C.— Houbigant renders it, For then will I pour into the people a pure language; that they may all invoke the name of Jehovah, and serve him with one shoulder; that is to say, wi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE PROMISE OF REDEMPTION. Zephaniah 3:9-13 RV. For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent. From beyond the riv...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent. FOR. The blessed things promised in this and are to be the immed...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PURE LANGUAGE] cp. Isaiah 6:5; Hosea 2:16; Hosea 2:17. They will no more call upon the names of the heathen gods: cp. Zephaniah 1:5....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (8-10) This is an enlargement of the consolation addressed to the “meek of the earth” in Zephaniah 2:3, and of the prediction of Zephaniah 2:11. The great day of the Lord, which shall overthrow all th...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO THE PEOPLE. — Better, _To the peoples,_ or _nations._ A PURE LANGUAGE. — The discord of Babel shall, as it were, give place to unity of language, when the worship of “gods many” shall yield to the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־אָ֛ז אֶהְפֹּ֥ךְ אֶל ־עַמִּ֖ים שָׂפָ֣ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For (g) then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent. (g) Lest any should then think that God's glory should have pe...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Chosen. Symmachus, "pure." (Calmet) --- Idols shall not be mentioned. (Theodoret) --- All people shall know and adore the Lord, which was verified only after Christ's coming. (Calmet) --- Septuagint,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignatio...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet now mitigates the asperity of his doctrine, which might have greatly terrified the godly; nay, it might have wholly disheartened them, had no consolation been applied. God then moderates h...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THEN WILL I TURN TO THE PEOPLE A PURE LANGUAGE,.... That is, at or about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans; when the Jews, both in their own land, and in the Gentile world, wo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent._ Ver. 9. _For then will I turn to the people a pure language_] "T...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For then_ Or, _afterward_, as the particle אז seems to signify here, _will I turn_, or _restore, to the people a pure language_ I will turn them from their idolatries, and other wickedness, (see Zeph...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    LANGUAGE: _ Heb._ lip CONSENT: _ Heb._ shoulder...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-13 The preaching of the gospel is predicted, when vengeance would be executed on the Jewish nation. The purifying doctrines of the gospel, or the pure language of the grace of the Lord, would teach...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FOR THEN, or, then, AFTERWARDS, i.e. when my judgments have been executed, and have cut off the wicked, WILL I TURN TO THE PEOPLE A PURE LANGUAGE; I will give them a pure way of worshipping me, in pra...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zephaniah 3:9 restore H2015 (H8799) peoples H5971 pure H1305 (H8803) language H8193 call H7121 (H8800) name...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FUTURE HOPE WILL FOLLOW JUDGMENT (ZEPHANIAH 3:8). Zephaniah 3:8 “Therefore wait for me,” says YHWH, “Until the day that I rise up for a witness. For my considered decision is to gather the nat...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    THEN WILL I TURN In Zephaniah the conversion of "the peoples" is stated out of the usual prophetic order, in which the blessing of Israel and the setting up of the kingdom precedes the conversion of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For then will I turn to the nations a pure lip, that they may all invoke the name of the Lord, and serve Him with one shoulder._ ON SERVING GOD WITH ONE SHOULDER “Then!” When? In the day in which Go...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Therefore wait ye upon Me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey._ THE ENCOURAGING ASPECTS OF GOD’S JUDGMENTS In this latter portion of his prophecy, in language pathetic, awe-in...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 3:9. For] The reason for judgment, _lip_ purity of language, “effusions of devotion,” springing from renewed hearts. CONSENT] Shoulder; a metaphor from burden-bearers with...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:41; Acts 2:4; Ephesians 4:29; Genesis 11:1; Habakkuk 2:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A pure language — I will give them a pure way of worshipping me, the issue of a pure heart....

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