Zephaniah 2:1-3

4. A call to repentance 2:1-3

This section of the book (Zephaniah 1:4 to Zephaniah 2:3) concludes with an appeal to the Judeans to repent and so avoid the punishment destined to come on them if they did not repent.

"The prophet meant in that terrible description of approaching judgments not to drive the people to despair, but to drive them to God and to their duty-not to frighten them out of their wits, but to frighten them out of their sins." [Note: Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, p. 1168.]