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Zephaniah 3:16

Zephaniah 3:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

It shall be said. So obvious to all men shall be the happy and secure, position of Zion under God's favour and rule, that they shall join in bidding her east away fear and exult in the Divine protection.

Fear thou not (comp. ; , ; , ). And to Zion. Probably vocative, O Zion. Let not thine hands be slack. Be not despairing or faint hearted, but work with energy and confidence (comp.

; ); or the sentence may be rendered, "Jerusalem will be called Fear not, and Zion, Let not thine hands be slack." In this case we may compare the names Hephzibah and Beulah given to Jerusalem (), and Jehovah-Tsidkenu ().

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