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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Zephaniah 3:8-10

(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 that opposes itself to His sovereignty, shall also introduce an extension of religious knowledge to the nations.

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See also Zephaniah 3:8-10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 8. _WAIT YE UPON ME_] Expect the fulfilment of all my promises and threatenings: I am God, and change not. _FOR ALL THE EARTH_] All the land of Judah....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE WAIT YE UPON - (for) Me God so willeth not to punish, but that all should lay hold of His mercy, that He doth not here even name punishment. Judah had slighted His mercies; He was ready to f...

  • 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...

  • 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 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

    THEREFORE, &C. The _Massorah_ (App-30 and App-93) calls attention to the fact that this verse (Zephaniah 3:8) contains all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, including the five final letters. This im...

  • 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

    _Therefore wait ye upon me_ As R.V. FOR me, the words being further explained in the clause: _for the day that I rise up_, &c. The expression _wait for me_is not ironical (Hitz.), though it might be u...

  • 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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1229 WHAT RECOMPENCE WE MAY EXPECT FOR OUR NEGLECT OF GOD Zephaniah 3:7. _I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoeve...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE— _Nevertheless._ "Notwithstanding these provocations, I exhort the pious among you to expect the accomplishment of the promises which I have made of restoring the Jewish nation to my favour:...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָכֵ֤ן חַכּוּ ־לִי֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה לְ יֹ֖ום

  • 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

    Therefore (f) 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 indig...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    To come. Septuagint, "for a witness." (Haydock) --- About forty years after Christ's resurrection, the Jews for the most part continuing obstinate, Titus ruined their city; which is a figure of the wo...

  • 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

    God here declares that the last end was near, since he had found by experience that he effected nothing by long forbearance, and since he had even found the Jews becoming worse, because he had so merc...

  • 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

    THEREFORE WAIT YE UPON ME, SAITH THE LORD,.... Or "nevertheless" f: this is said to the disciples and followers of Christ among the Jews; for there were some few that did fear the Lord, and received h...

  • John Trapp Complete 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 indignati...

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

    _Therefore_ Rather, _Nevertheless, wait ye upon me, saith the Lord_ “Notwithstanding these provocations, saith God, I exhort the godly among you to expect the fulfilment of the promises I have made, o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SALVATION OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore wait ye upon Me, saith the Lord, this merciful invitation being extended to all who will still listen to His words, UNTIL THE DAY THAT I RISE UP TO THE PREY, when He pours out His wrath upon...

  • 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

    THEREFORE, since you will not be amended by all, sines you grow worse and worse, wait ye upon me; ye refractory and incorrigible Jews, rulers, and people, attend my resolution, for I am resolved what...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zephaniah 3:8 wait H2442 (H8761) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 day H3117 up H6965 (H8800) plunder...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _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 Biblical Illustrator

    _I have cut off the nations._ TERRIBLE CALAMITIES IN HUMAN HISTORY In these verses the prophet sums up all that he had said in the preceding verses of this chapter, and thus closes his admonition to...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:8 The people are called to WAIT FOR God, not for possible blessing (Isaiah 30:18) but for coming judgment. This time it will not be against Ju

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Zephaniah 3:8. Wait] The prophecy returns to its starting-point in Zephaniah 3:2, to bring it to a close [_Keil_], PREY] (cf. Genesis 49:27;...

  • 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

    2 Peter 3:10; Deuteronomy 32:21; Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 36:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Therefore — Since you will not be amended. Wait ye — Attend my resolution. Until — Until I rise up to destroy first, and next to take the spoil. Upon them — The incorrigible Jews. Devoured — Consumed...

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