Zephaniah 3:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Is in

He will

Genesis 18:25

Job 8:3

Job 34:10

Every morning

Lamentations 3:23

Bring

But

Jeremiah 3:3

Jeremiah 6:15

Jeremiah 8:12

General references

Jeremiah 9:13

Bible References

Is in

The Lord has taken away His judgments against you,
He has cleared away your enemies.
The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;
You will fear disaster no more.

Since the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,

For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

The city shall be 18,000 cubits round about; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘The Lord is there.’”

Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,
Her priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”

For I,’ declares the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”

He will

Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”

“Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding.
Far be it from God to do wickedness,
And from the Almighty to do wrong.

Every morning

“As often as it passes through, it will seize you;
For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.”

O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for You.
Be their

strength every morning,

Our salvation also in the time of distress.

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples,
That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

O house of David, thus says the Lord:
“Administer justice every morning;
And deliver the person who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor,

That My wrath may not go forth like fire

And burn with none to extinguish it,
Because of the evil of their deeds.

They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.

Bring

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light
And your judgment as the noonday.

“A bruised reed He will not break
And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish;
He will faithfully bring forth justice.

I will bear the indignation of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the light,
And I will see His

righteousness.

But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.

But

“Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you had a harlot’s forehead;
You refused to be ashamed.

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done?
They certainly were not ashamed,
And they did not know how to blush;
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down,”
Says the Lord.

General references

The Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,