Zephaniah 3:12-13 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 3:13

The remnant of Israel (see note on Zephaniah 3:12 ). Though they claim no worldly eminence, the true Israelites shall be conspicuous for spiritual graces. Shall not do iniquity. Their acts shall be just and holy; their daily conduct such as becomes the children of God's election ( Leviticus 19:2 ; 1 John 3:9 ). Nor speak lies. There shall be no lying prophets there, and all fraud and double-dealing shall be abolished. The proof of their righteous conduct is found in the favour of the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:12

I will also leave - (Over, as a remnant, it is still the same heavy prophecy, that a remnant only ‘shall be saved’) “an afflicted and poor people.” priests, (except that ‘great company who were obedient to the faith’) Acts 6:7, scribes, lawyers, Pharisees, Sadducees were taken away; and there remained “the people of the land” , the “unlearned and ignorant” Acts 4:13, “the weak things of the world and the things despised” 1 Corinthians 1:27-28 who bore the very title of their Master, “the poor... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:13

The remnant of Israel - The same poor people, the “true Israel” of whom God said, “I leave over” (the word is the same) “a poor people,” few, compared with the rest who were blinded; of whom the Lord said, “I know whom I have chosen” John 13:18. These “shall not do iniquity nor speak lies.” Cyril: “This is a spiritual adorning, a most beautiful coronet of glorious virtues. For where meekness and humility are and the desire of righteousness, and the tongue unlearns vain words and sinful speech,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 3:12-13

Zephaniah 3:12-13. I will also leave in the midst of thee Of Judea and Jerusalem; an afflicted and poor people Hebrew, עם עני ודל , a people humble, or meek, and poor. When the Chaldeans carried away the Jews into captivity, they left of the poor of the land for vine-dressers and husbandmen; and such as returned from the Babylonish captivity were generally both poor and lowly, and dead to all confidence in external privileges. These were a type and figure of God’s spiritual remnant,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zephaniah 3:9-20

3:9-20 SALVATION FOR THE REPENTANTWhen all the sinners have been destroyed, the humble who have previously turned from their sin (see 2:1-3) will then enjoy a new life of peace and blessing. In the midst of judgment there is mercy for the repentant. Cleansed sinners from all nations will worship and serve God with pure hearts (9-10). No longer will Jerusalem be characterized by the pride, rebellion, dishonesty and deceit of Zephaniah’s day. Wrongdoing will be removed from the community of God’s... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zephaniah 3:12

trust = flee for refuge to. Hebrew. hasah. App-69 . Not the same word as in Zephaniah 3:2 . the name. See note on Psalms 20:1 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zephaniah 3:13

for they shall feed, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:5 , Leviticus 26:6 ). App-92 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zephaniah 3:12

"But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of Jehovah."The great thrust of the gospel is to "the poor" and the "poor in spirit"; and the savage persecutions of the early ages of the church were plainly foretold in this prophetic description of the worldly status of God's true followers in the present age. Paul also testified that, "not many mighty ... not many noble were called" (1 Corinthians 1:26). In this is another great... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zephaniah 3:13

"The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth; for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.""The remnant of Israel ..." It is only the "remnant" of Israel that is to have any portion in the kingdom of Messiah; yet, strangely enough, none of the old secular Israel is excluded. There was never any prohibition against all of secular Israel accepting their Messiah; but it is revealed in all the prophets... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:12

12. afflicted . . . they shall trust in . . . Lord—the blessed effect of sanctified affliction on the Jewish remnant. Entire trust in the Lord cannot be, except where all cause for boasting is taken away (Isaiah 14:32; Zechariah 11:11). read more