Zephaniah 3:18

I will gather those who grieve, those who cannot attend the appointed feasts, 1 so you will no longer bear any shame for it. + 3:18 This verse is very difficult to understand, and modern versions translate it in many different ways. 1

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In The King James Version

I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

In Context

17Yahweh your God is among you, a mighty one to save you. 1 He will celebrate over you with joy; he will be silent over you in his love; 1 he will be glad over you with a shout for joy. 1

19Behold, I am about to deal with all your oppressors. 1 At that time, I will rescue the lame and gather up the outcast. 1 I will make them as praise, and I will change their shame into renown in all the earth. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth, let them lead me. 1 Let them bring me to your holy hill 1 and to your dwelling. 1

Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach for our neighbors, 1 mocking and derision to those who are around us. 1

Psalms 137:3There our captors required songs from us, 1 and those who mocked us required us to be happy, saying, 1 “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.” 1

Jeremiah 31:8See, I am about to bring them from the northern lands. I will gather them from the farthest parts of the earth. 1 The blind and lame will be among them; 1 pregnant women and those who are about to give birth will be with them. 1 A great assembly will return here. 1

Lamentations 1:7In the days of her affliction and her homelessness, Jerusalem will call to mind 1 all her precious treasures that she had in former days. 1 When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, no one helped her. 1 The adversaries saw her and laughed at her destruction. 1

Ezekiel 34:13Then I will bring them out from among the peoples; I will gather them from the lands and bring them to their land. I will put them in pastures on the mountainsides of Israel, by the streams, and in every settlement in the land.

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 →

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