desired
Literally, that hath not shame.
Compare (Jeremiah 3:3).
Having set forth the terrors of the Judgment Day, the prophet adds an earnest call to repentance; and then declares how judgments, forerunners of t...
Gather (a) yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; (a) He exhorts them to repentance, and wills them to descend into themse...
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 jud...
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...
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...
DISCOURSE: 1228 REPENTANCE URGED Zephaniah 2:1-3 . Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; before the decree bri...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Gather yourselves - Others, sift yourselves. Separate the chaff from the whea...
O nation not desired— O nation, that receiveth not instruction. Houbigant renders this and the next verse as follows: O nation without knowledge...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Gather yourselves together - to a religious assembly, to avert the ju...
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. Je...
Gather yourselves together. — This rendering has little to recommend it. Two translations of the obscure verb here used are possible: Sift yoursel...
II. (1-3) An exhortation to seek God before His day of vengeance is revealed.
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 wa...
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 lowl...
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...
After this declaration, the prophet uttered his great appeal, first to the nation as a whole, calling on it to pull itself together before the opport...
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 ju...
"Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; (2) Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before...
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 pred...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Ver. 1. Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together ] Excutite vos,...
Gather yourselves together , &c. Assemble yourselves to make a public humiliation: see Joel 2:16 . O nation not desired Or coveted , as the...
The People Exhorted to Repent. B. C. 612. ...
ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2 An exhortation to repentance, Zephaniah 2:1-3 . The judgment of the Philistines, Zephaniah 2:4-7 of Moab and Ammon, Ze...
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 ). Zep...
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 exa...
Zephaniah 2:1 . Gather yourselves together, for fasting and prayer, oh nation not desired, whose practices are lothed and abhorred; a nation who...
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 Chal...
EXPOSITION. Verse 2:1-3:8 Part II . EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE AND TO PERSEVERANCE . Zephaniah 2:1-36 § 1. The prophet urges...
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, as for a penitential assembly with earnest self-examination, o nation not desired, literally, "th...
The Exhortation and the Doom of the Philistines
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 ;...
Gather yourselves — Call a solemn assembly, proclaim a fast. Not desired — Or, not desirous. Unwilling to return, and unworthy to be received on yo...
1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;