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Zephaniah 3:5

ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON Zephaniah 3:5 Unlike the human leaders, God always shows that he is righteous by not breaking the law (Ezekiel 18:5). He shows forth his justice by seeing that all receive fair treatment (compare Exodus 23:6).

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See also Zephaniah 3:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 5. _THE JUST LORD_ IS _IN THE MIDST THEREOF_] He sees, marks down, and will punish all these wickednesses. _EVERY MORNING DOTH HE BRING HIS JUDGMENT TO LIGHT_] The sense is, says Bp. _Newcome_,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    But, beside these “evening wolves in the midst of her,” there standeth Another “in the midst of her,” whom they knew not, and so, very near to them although they would not draw near to Him. But He was...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IN THE MIDST THEREOF. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 5:3.Deuteronomy 7:21; Deuteronomy 7:21). App-92. Compare Zephaniah 3:15....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    All these wrongs they practise undeterred and uninstructed by the presence and operations of the righteous Lord in the midst of them. _The just Lord is_ Rather: THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS IN THE MIDST OF H...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    EVERY MORNING, &C.— That is, "Every day he fails not to give fresh evidences of his justice upon these princes, false prophets, and idolatrous priests." The allusion is to the custom of the Jews and n...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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

    (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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְהוָ֤ה צַדִּיק֙ בְּ קִרְבָּ֔הּ לֹ֥א יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה...

  • 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

    The (c) 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. (c) The wicked thus boasted t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Morning. Speedily he will punish the guilty before all. --- Shame. He is hardened. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "and not injustice for victory." Grabe substitutes contention. God is just, (Haydock) even...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "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...

  • 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

    Here the Prophet throws back against hypocrites what they were wont to pretend, when they sought wickedly to reject every instruction and all warnings; for they said, that God dwelt in the midst of th...

  • 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

    THE JUST LORD [IS] IN THE MIDST THEREOF,.... In the midst of the city of Jerusalem, where those princes, judges, prophets and priests, were, that behaved so ill, and saw and observed all their evil ac...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 5. _The just Lord is in the...

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

    _The just Lord is in the midst thereof_ Namely, of Jerusalem, and sees all these things. _He will not do iniquity_ He is just and holy, and will do nothing but what is right; nor will he suffer wicked...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The just Lord is in the midst thereof, He, the righteous One, having left nothing untried; HE WILL NOT DO INIQUITY, He commits no wrong; EVERY MORNING DOTH HE BRING HIS JUDGMENT TO LIGHT, giving evide...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE OBDURACY OF THE CAPITAL CITY...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    EVERY MORNING: _ Heb._ morning by morning...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE JUST LORD IS IN THE MIDST THEREOF: though unjust princes, judges, prophets, and priests do not think so, yet the Lord who is most just is in the midst of them; possibly the sanhedrim; he observeth...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zephaniah 3:5 LORD H3068 righteous H6662 midst H7130 do H6213 (H8799) unrighteousness H5766 Every H1242 morning H1242

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • 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

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Peter 1:17; Deuteronomy 23:14; Deuteronomy 32:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In the midst — Observing all. Not do iniquity — He will judge them righteously. Every morning — Daily he discovers his displeasure against the wicked. Faileth not — Lets no season slip to convince the...

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