Chapter 2:
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Introduction 1 2 3 Habakkuk Haggai
Zephaniah 2
Concise Complete
An exhortation to repentance. (1-3) Judgments upon
other nations. (4-15)
Verses 1-3 The
prophet calls to national repentance, as the only way to prevent national ruin.
A nation not desiring, that has not desires toward God, is not desirous of his
favour and grace, has no mind to repent and reform. Or, not desirable, not
having any thing to recommend them to God; to whom God might justly say, Depart
from me; but he says, Gather together to me that you may seek my face. We know
what God's decree will bring against impenitent sinners, therefore it highly
concerns all to repent in the accepted time. How careful should we all be to
seek peace with God, before the Holy Spirit withdraws from us, or ceases to
strive with us; before the day of grace is over, or the day of life; before our
everlasting state is determined! Let the poor, despised, and afflicted, seek the
Lord, and seek to understand and keep his commandments better, that they may be
more humbled for their sins. The chief hope of deliverance from national
judgments rests upon prayer.
Verses 4-15
Those are really in a woful condition who have the word of the Lord against
them, for no word of his shall fall to the ground. God will restore his people
to their rights, though long kept from them. It has been the common lot of God's
people, in all ages, to be reproached and reviled. God shall be worshipped, not
only by all Israel, and the strangers who join them, but by the heathen. Remote
nations must be reckoned with for the wrongs done to God's people. The
sufferings of the insolent and haughty in prosperity, are unpitied and
unlamented. But all the desolations of flourishing nations will make way for the
overturning Satan's kingdom. Let us improve our advantages, and expect the
performance of every promise, praying that our Father's name may be hallowed
every where, over all the earth.
Chapter 2:
| Darby
| Geneva
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| Matthew Henry
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Introduction 1 2 3 Habakkuk Haggai
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
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Esther
Job
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Song of Solomon
Isaiah
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Daniel
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Malachi
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John
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1 Timothy
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Titus
Philemon
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