“ Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; ”
Having set forth the terrors of the Judgment Day, the prophet adds an earnest call to repentance; and then declares how judgments, forerunners of that Day, shall fall, one by one, on those nations...
Gather (a) yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; (a) He exhorts them to repentance, and wills them to descend into themselves and gather themselves, lest they be scattered...
Zephaniah 2. Doom on Philistia [Moab and Ammon], Ethiopia, and Assyria. Zephaniah 2:1-7 . Having spent its rage on Judah, the storm of Divine judgment sweeps south by the Philistian sea-board, up...
Gathers . Collect. Hebrew. kashash. Occurs only in Exodus 5:7 ; Exodus 5:12 . Numbers 15:32 ; Numbers 15:33 . 1Ki 17:10, 1 Kings 17:12 . It is not the same word as in Zephaniah 3:8 ; Zephani...
The Prophet, after having spoken of God’s wrath, and shown how terrible it would be, and also how near, now exhorts the Jews to repentance, and thus mitigates the severity of his former doctrin...
DISCOURSE: 1228 REPENTANCE URGED Zephaniah 2:1-3 . Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Gather yourselves - Others, sift yourselves. Separate the chaff from the wheat, before the judgments of God fall upon you. O na...
O nation not desired— O nation, that receiveth not instruction. Houbigant renders this and the next verse as follows: O nation without knowledge. Zephaniah 2:2 . Before you be carried away as...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Gather yourselves together - to a religious assembly, to avert the judgment by prayers, ( Joel 2:16 , "Gather the peopl...
Jehovah's impending Judgment upon Judah's Neighbours and Foes The universal note which is struck in Zechariah 1:2-3 is now further amplified. Jehovah's agents of punishment, the Scythians, shall...
Gather yourselves together. — This rendering has little to recommend it. Two translations of the obscure verb here used are possible: Sift yourselves, yea sift — i.e., winnow out the sins which...
THE PROPHET AND THE REFORMERS Zephaniah 1:1-18 - Zephaniah 2:3 TOWARDS the year 625, when King Josiah had passed out of his minority, and was making his first efforts at religious reform, pr...
Meekness Saves, Pride Destroys Zephaniah 2:1-15 The nation, on the whole, had no remorse, no desire for God; but there were a few meek and lowly souls, and the hope was held out to them that th...
The first movement of the prophecy is the prophet's declaration of the coming judgment of Jehovah. This he announced in general terms, then described more particularly its procedure and character. T...
CONTENTS The Prophet in this chapter is making a very pressing exhortation to repentance, and to the seeking of the Lord. He afterwards speaks of judgments to the nations around.
Gather yourselves together ,.... This is said to the people of the Jews in general; that whereas the judgments of God were coming upon them, as predicted in the preceding chapter Zephaniah 1:1 , it...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Ver. 1. Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together ] Excutite vos, iterumque excutite. Fan yourselves, yea, fan your...
Gather yourselves together , &c. Assemble yourselves to make a public humiliation: see Joel 2:16 . O nation not desired Or coveted , as the word נכס Šproperly signifies. The Vulgate renders...
The People Exhorted to Repent. B. C. 612. 1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather toge...
ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2 An exhortation to repentance, Zephaniah 2:1-3 . The judgment of the Philistines, Zephaniah 2:4-7 of Moab and Ammon, Zephaniah 2:8-11 \\, of Ethiopia, Zephaniah 2:12...
Chapter 2 YHWH's Judgment Will Also Come On The Surrounding Nations For Their Sins. A Final Plea to Judah and Jerusalem ( Zephaniah 2:1-3 ). Zephaniah 2:1-2 “Gather yourselves together, yes, g...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Summons to repent. Gather ] As stubble ( Exodus 5:7-12 ); then generally, to collect; in this sense, to gather one’s self, to examine one’s self. Desired ] A word which signifies...
desired Literally, that hath not shame. Compare ( Jeremiah 3:3 ).
Zephaniah 2:1 . Gather yourselves together, for fasting and prayer, oh nation not desired, whose practices are lothed and abhorred; a nation whom God will not own as his chosen people. Zephani...
Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth. Sin and repentance, the bane and antidote An exhortation to the men of Judah to repent ere the Chaldean invaders approach and wreak destruction on th...
EXPOSITION. Verse 2:1-3:8 Part II . EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE AND TO PERSEVERANCE . Zephaniah 2:1-36 § 1. The prophet urges all to examine their ways before the day of the L...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, as for a penitential assembly with earnest self-examination, o nation not desired, literally, "that does not grow pale," which till now has felt no...
2 Chronicles 20:4 ; Esther 4:16 ; Isaiah 1:10-15 ; Isaiah 1:4-6 ; Isaiah 26:8 ; Isaiah 26:9 ; Jeremiah 12:7-9 ; Joel 1:14 ; Joel 2:12-18 ; Matthew 18:20 ; Nehemiah 8:1 ; Nehemiah 9:1 ; Z...
Gather yourselves — Call a solemn assembly, proclaim a fast. Not desired — Or, not desirous. Unwilling to return, and unworthy to be received on your return.