Zephaniah 3:8-13 NIV1984

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 3:8

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 forgive all they had sinned, if they would “now” receive instruction; they in return set themselves to corrupt “all” their doings. They had wholly forsaken Him. “Therefore” - we should have expected, as elsewhere, “Therefore I will visit all your iniquities upon you.” But not so. The chastisement is... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:9

For then - In the order of God’s mercies. The deliverance from Babylon was the forerunner of that of the Gospel, which was its object. The spread of the Gospel then is spoken of in the connection of God’s Providence and plan, and time is overlooked. Its blessings are spoken of, as “then” given when the earnest was given, and the people, from whom according to the flesh Christ was to be born, were placed anew in the land where He was to be born. Lap.: “The prophet springs, as is his wont, to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:10

From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia - (See Isaiah 18:1.) The farthest southern people, with whom the Jews had contact, stand as the type of the whole world beyond. The utmost bound of the known inhabited land should not be the bound of the Gospel. The conversion of Abyssinia is one, but the narrowest fulfillment of the prophecy. The whole new world, though not in the mind of the prophet, was in the mind of Him who spake by the prophet.My suppliants - He names them as what they shall be when they... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:11

In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings - Because God, forgiving them, will blot them out and no more remember them. This was first fulfilled in the Gospel. Cyril: “No one can doubt that when Christ came in the flesh, there was an amnesty and remission to all who believed. ‘For we are justified not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His great mercy.’ But we have been released from shame. For ‘He’ hath restored us to freedom of access to God, Who for... 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 3:8

Zephaniah 3:8. 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, of restoring the Jewish nation to my wonted favour in the latter ages of the world: in order to which great crisis, I will execute remarkable judgments upon the unbelievers and disobedient.” Thus Lowth. It is very common with the prophets to subjoin the most comfortable promises to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 3:9

Zephaniah 3:9. For then Or, afterward, as the particle אז seems to signify here, will I turn, or restore, to the people a pure language I will turn them from their idolatries, and other wickedness, (see Zephaniah 3:13,) to glorify me with one mind and one mouth. The same thing is expressed by speaking the language of Canaan, Isaiah 19:18. This promise seems primarily to respect the Jewish captives in Babylon, and to imply that God would, by the captivity, and other methods of his... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 3:10

Zephaniah 3:10. From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia The expression, מעבר , rendered from beyond, may be translated, from the borders of, as it signifies indifferently the hither or further side of a river. In the war with Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt, many of the Jews were made captive and carried into Egypt, and from thence were sold into Ethiopia, properly so called. This prophecy, therefore, in its primary sense, seems to signify, that the posterity of these, termed here by God... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Zephaniah 3:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zephaniah 3:11

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

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 3:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 3:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zephaniah 3:10

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