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Verse Zephaniah 3:17. _THE LORD THY GOD_] יהוה אלהיך _Yehovah
Eloheycha_, "The self-existent and eternal Being, who is in covenant
with you;" the character of God in reference to the Jews when standin...
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THE LORD THY GOD IN THE MIDST OF THEE IS MIGHTY; HE WILL SAVE - What
can He then not do for thee, since He is Almighty? What will He not do
for thee, since “He will save?” whom then should we fear? “I...
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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...
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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...
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IS MIGHTY; HE WILL SAVE. The Hebrew accents place the chief pause or
emphasis on "save", implying not that He will save at some future
time, but that He is an ever-present Saviour. Read "Jehovah thy E...
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The Joy of the Redeemed People in the Lord's Presence among them
The prophet looks forward to the time when all Zion's afflictions
shall be over, when she shall be redeemed and all her captive childr...
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Render with R.V., THE LORD THY GOD IS IN THE MIDST OF THEE, A MIGHTY
ONE WHO WILL SAVE.
_he will rejoice over thee_ Comp. Isaiah 62:5; Isaiah 65:19.
_He will rest in his love_ Or, _he will be silent_...
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_THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE -- ZEPHANIAH 3:14-17:_ The expression
"Daughter of Zion" refers to Jerusalem and her people. Everyone in
Jerusalem could celebrate and shout because they had been deliv...
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DISCOURSE: 1232
GOD’S DELIGHT IN SAVING SINNERS
Zephaniah 3:17. _The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty: he
will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy: he will rest in his
love, he will j...
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HE WILL SAVE, &C.— _He will bring salvation; he will rejoice and be
glad over thee; he will renew his love, and joy over thee with
singing, as in a solemn assembly._ Zephaniah 3:18. _For I will take
a...
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PORTRAIT OF THE REDEEMED. Zephaniah 3:14-20
RV. Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice
with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. Jehovah hath taken away
thy judgements, he h...
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The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he
will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy
over thee with singing.
THE LORD THY GOD IN THE MIDST OF THE...
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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...
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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...
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(14-20) The blessedness of Jerusalem when she has been thus brought
through suffering to glory....
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HE WILL REST... — Better, _He will keep silence in His love; He will
exult over thee with a shout of joy._ Unutterable yearnings and
outbursts of jubilant affection are both the expressions of sexual...
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יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהַ֛יִךְ בְּ קִרְבֵּ֖ך
גִּבֹּ֣ור יֹושִׁ֑יעַ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he
will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in (n) his love, he will
joy over thee with singing.
(n) Signifying, that God delight...
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_Silent; constant. (Menochius) --- He will accuse thee no more. Can
this be understood of the Jews, who have been cast off till the
fulness of the Gentiles enter the Church? [Romans xi. 25.] To the
la...
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"Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with
all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. (15) The LORD hath taken away
thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Isra...
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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...
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_GOD’S IMMOVABLE LOVE_
‘He will rest in His love.’
Zephaniah 3:17
We are going to the ground of everything—of all comfort and all
hope, of all affection and all happiness—when we say that God
‘rest...
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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...
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THE LORD THY GOD IN THE MIDST OF THEE [IS] MIGHTY,.... Every word
carries in it something very encouraging to the church and people of
God; and is an antidote against those fears and faintings they ar...
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The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he
will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy
over thee with singing.
Ver. 17. _The Lord thy God in the mi...
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_In that day_ Or, _time of restitution_, when the captives shall
return and be settled in their own land; _it shall be said to
Jerusalem _ By prophets, or by friends congratulating and encouraging
the...
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The Lord, thy God, in the midst of thee is mighty, not at a dim
distance, but in the closest proximity, and powerful to help; HE WILL
SAVE, He is the Savior; HE WILL REJOICE OVER THEE WITH JOY, in His...
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THE SALVATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION...
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HE WILL REST:
_ Heb._ he will be silent...
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14-20 After the promises of taking away sin, follow promises of
taking away trouble. When the cause is removed, the effect will cease.
What makes a people holy, will make them happy. The precious pro...
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THE LORD; the everlasting One, who changeth not. THY GOD; thine in
covenant, never to be forgotten or repealed. Is mighty; can do all he
will, can restrain and destroy enemies, can support and defend...
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THE SING OF THE REDEEMED (ZEPHANIAH 3:14).
Zephaniah 3:14
‘Sing, O daughter of Zion, shout, O Israel,
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem,
YHWH has taken away your jud...
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Zephaniah 3:17
Those who have ever known that sense of repose too deep for words the
thought which feels that, by any expression of itself it would only
mar its own intensity would understand the beau...
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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...
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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...
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_The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty._
GOD IN THE MIDST OF HIS CHURCH
Almost all the messages of the prophets to the ancient Church begin
with the most awful threatenings and end with th...
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_Sing, O daughter of Zion._
JOY: HUMAN AND DIVINE
Here is a call to the regenerated inhabitants of Jerusalem to exult in
the mercy of God, who has wrought their deliverance.
I. The joy of the regen...
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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....
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ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:17 The previously weakened nation is
in the presence of the MIGHTY ONE (Deuteronomy 10:17;...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Zephaniah 3:14.] Fulness of joy indicated by repetition of words.
ZEPHANIAH 3:15.] The reasons given for exultation. Evil removed,
enemies destroyed, full enjoyment of God’s presen...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 30:9; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 18:14; Genesis
2:2