The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #230
230. Internal Meaning of Zephaniah, Chapter 3
1-4 Everything of the doctrine of truth and good has been perverted. (3)
5 When the Lord comes He will investigate. (1)
6-8 The evil will perish and are to be cast into hell. (15)
9-10 Then a new church made up of those who acknowledge the Lord will arise. (11)
11-12 Those who are in falsities of evil must be separated, and thus the few must be saved (11, 16, 12)
13-20 Then there will be a new church of those who will acknowledge the Lord, and He will remove evils and falsities from them; concerning this church. (11, 3)
Zephaniah 3:6-8
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I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
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I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won't be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
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"Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
