Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
16In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.
18I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.
Cross References
Genesis 1:31And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
Numbers 14:8And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 30:9And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:
Psalms 78:65Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.
Psalms 149:4For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 3:15-20
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 612.) 14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. 15 The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord , is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. 16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. 17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with… Read the whole commentary →