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Zephaniah 3:20 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD. "
Zephaniah 3:20
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.
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Zephaniah 3:1
"Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!"
Zephaniah 3:2
"She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God."
Zephaniah 3:3
"Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow."
Zephaniah 3:4
"Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law."
Zephaniah 3:5
"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."
Zephaniah 3:6
"I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant."
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