Zephaniah 3:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

Is in

He will

Genesis 18:25

Job 8:3

Job 34:10

Every morning

Lamentations 3:23

Bring

But

Jeremiah 3:3

Jeremiah 6:15

Jeremiah 8:12

General references

Jeremiah 9:13

Bible References

Is in

Jehovah has removed his judgments against you. He has turned aside your enemies. The King of Israel, Jehovah, is in your midst! You will fear calamity no more.

Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp. He is there to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you. Therefore your camp must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

The city will measure about thirty-one thousand five hundred feet all the way around. From then on the city's name will be: Jehovah Is There.

The leaders judge for a bribe, and the priests teach for wages! The prophets predict for money yet they rely on Jehovah when they say: Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.

Jehovah said: I will become to her a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

He will

Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Every morning

As often as it passes through it will take you. Morning by morning it will pass over, and by day and by night. It will be a terror just to understand the report.

Jehovah, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.

The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.

O house of David, Jehovah says: Administer justice every morning. Deliver the person who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. That way I may not have to offer my wrath like fire and burn with none to extinguish it, because of the evil of your deeds.'

They are new every morning. Your faithfulness is abundant.

Bring

He will cause your righteousness to shine like a light, your just cause like the noonday sun.

He will not break off a bent reed nor extinguish a flickering lamp. He will bring lasting justice to all.

I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him. He will plead my cause, and execute judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light and I will see his righteousness.

Everything covered up will be revealed. Everything hidden will be made known.

Thanks to your stubborn and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man's praise will come from God.

But

Accordingly the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. Yet, you have the unashamed (conspicuous) (impudent) look of a prostitute, and you refuse to be ashamed.

Are they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They are not even ashamed! Not at all! They do not even know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I punish them, they will be cast down, says Jehovah.

Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed! And they did not know how to blush. For that reason they will fall among those who fall. At the time of their punishment they will be brought down, Says Jehovah.

General references

Jehovah said: They have forsaken the Law I set before them. They have not obeyed my voice nor walked according to it.