Zephaniah 3:18

The sad exiles from the appointed meeting, have I gathered, from thee, had they been! [but were] a burden on thee—a reproach!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, thy God, in the midst of thee, as a mighty one, will save,—will be glad over thee with rejoicing, will be silent in his love, will exult over thee with shouts of triumph.

19Behold me! dealing with all thine oppressors, at that time,—and I will save her that is lame, and, her that hath been an outcast, will I carry, and I will make them to be a Praise and a Name, in the whole earth that hath witnessed their shame.

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Cross References

Psalms 43:3Send forth thy light and thy faithfulness, Let, them, lead me, Let them bring me into thy holy mountain, and into thy habitations:

Psalms 79:4We have become, A reproach to our neighbours,—A mockery and a derision, to them who are round about us.

Psalms 137:3For, there, our captors asked of us words of song, and our plunderers—gladness,—Sing us of the songs of Zion!

Jeremiah 31:8Behold me bringing them in out of the land of the North, And I will gather them out of the remote parts of the earth, Among them, the blind and the lame The woman with child and she that giveth birth, together,—A great convocation, shall return hither:

Lamentations 1:7Jerusalem hath remembered in the days of her humiliation and her fleeings—all her precious things, which have existed from the days of old,—Now that her people have been falling into the hand of the adversary, with none to help her, the adversaries have seen her, have mocked over her sabbath-keepings.

Ezekiel 34:13And I will bring them out from among the peoples And will gather them out of the lands, And will bring them upon their own soil, And will tend them Upon the mountains of Israel, In the ravines. And in all the habitable places of 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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