Zephaniah 2:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 2

³Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

Zephaniah 2:3 —

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Cross-References

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Amos 5:14-15
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. …
Isaiah 26:20-21
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. …
Jeremiah 29:12-13
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. …
Psalms 76:9
When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Backsliders Blessing Day Enquiring of God Gentleness God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

Here we see what the prophet meant in that terrible description of the approaching judgments which we had in the foregoing chapter. From first to last his design was, not to drive the people to despair, but to drive them to God and to their duty—not to frighten them out of their wits, but to frighten them out of their sins. In pursuance of that he here calls them to repentance, national repentance…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. As in Zep 2:1 (compare Note, see on Zep 1:12) he had warned the hardened among the people to humble themselves, so now he admonishes “the meek” to proceed in their right course, that so they may escape the general calamity (Psa 76:9). The meek bow themselves under God’s chastisements to God’s will, whereas the ungodly become only the more hardened by them. Seek ye the Lord--in contrast to those…