Zephaniah 2:4

"Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger."

Key Reflection

This verse encourages those who are humble and obedient to seek the Lord, emphasizing the importance of righteousness and humility. By doing so, they may find protection during God's judgment, symbolizing a promise of safety in times of divine wrath.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For -As a ground for repentance and perseverance, he goes through Pagan nations, upon whom God’s wrath should come. Jerome: “As Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, after visions concerning Judah, turn to other nations round about, and according to the character of each, announce what shall come upon them, and dwell at length upon it, so doth this prophet, though more briefly” And thus under five nations, who lay west, east, south and north, he includes all mankind on all sides, and, again, according to their respective characters toward Israel, as they are alien from, or hostile to the Church; the Phil

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