Zephaniah 2:1
Gather yourselves — Call a solemn assembly, proclaim a fast. Not desired — Or, not desirous. Unwilling to return, and unworthy to be received on your return.... [ Continue Reading ]
Gather yourselves — Call a solemn assembly, proclaim a fast. Not desired — Or, not desirous. Unwilling to return, and unworthy to be received on your return.... [ Continue Reading ]
The decree — Before God's decree is put in execution. The day — Before the day of your calamities. As the chaff — Carry you away as the wind carries chaff away.... [ Continue Reading ]
Seek — Fear, worship, depend on him alone. Ye meek — Ye humble ones. Wrought his judgment — Obeyed his precepts. Seek righteousness — Continue therein. Seek meekness — Patiently wait on the just and merciful God. Hid — Under the wing of Divine Providence.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — It is time to seek God; for your neighbours, as well as you, shall be destroyed. Gaza — A chief city of the Philistines. They — The Babylonians. Shall drive — Into captivity. At the noon day — It shall be taken by force at noon.... [ Continue Reading ]
The inhabitants — All the Philistines. Cherethites — Or destroyers, men that were stout, fierce, and terrible to their neighbours. O Canaan — That part that the Philistines kept by force from the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]
For shepherds — Instead of cities full of rich citizens, there shall be only cottages for shepherds.... [ Continue Reading ]
The coast — The sea — coast, the land of the Philistines. The remnant — That survive the captivity. Shall feed — Their flocks. In the houses — In places where these formerly stood. They — Both shepherds and flocks. Shall visit — In mercy.... [ Continue Reading ]
I — God. Magnified themselves — Invading their frontiers.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of nettles — Not cultivated, but over — run with nettles. Salt — pits — A dry, barren earth, fit only to dig salt out of. The residue — That return out of Babylon. Possess them — Settle upon those parts of their lands, that are fit for habitation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Famish — Take away all their sacrifices and drink — offerings. The gods — Idols of those lands. From his place — Not only at Jerusalem, but every where.... [ Continue Reading ]
By my sword — The Chaldeans are called God's sword; because God employed them.... [ Continue Reading ]
He — God. The north — Assyria, which lay northward of Judea, and due north from Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the beasts — All sorts of beasts which are found in those countries. The bittern — A bird that delights in desolate places.... [ Continue Reading ]
This — So the prophet triumphs over her. There is none — None like me, or that can contend with me.... [ Continue Reading ]