Zephaniah 3:20 - Exposition.

Will I bring you again ( in ) . He repeats the promise with some slight verbal changes. I will lead you like a flock to the pastures of Zion. People; peoples. When I turn back your captivity; i.e. when God brings them all home into the spiritual Zion from which they were long exiled (but see note on Zephaniah 2:7 ; and comp. Hosea 6:11 ; Amos 9:14 ). Before your eyes. Most certainly and evidently, so that what they hoped for they shall plainly see ( Deuteronomy 1:30 ; Deuteronomy 30:3 , etc.; Isaiah 52:8 , Isaiah 52:10 ). Saith the Lord. All this shall assuredly come to pass, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. In the prophet's eye the restoration from captivity and the times of Messiah are synchronous, or the former is so closely connected in idea with the latter that he speaks of both under one set of terms, applying the same imagery to both.