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Zefanya 3:5
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Tetapi TUHAN adil di tengah-tengahnya, tidak berbuat kelaliman. Pagi demi pagi Ia memberi hukum-Nya; itu tidak pernah ketinggalan pada waktu fajar. Tetapi orang lalim tidak kenal malu!
Maka Tuhan yang adil ada di tengah-tengahnya, Ia yang tiada berbuat salah, yang pada tiap-tiap pagi menyatakan hukum-Nya dengan terang, tiada kurang apa-apa; hanya orang terbalik itu tiada tahu malu!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
just: Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalms 99:3, Psalms 99:4, Psalms 145:17, Ecclesiastes 3:16, Ecclesiastes 3:17, Isaiah 45:21, Habakkuk 1:3, Zechariah 9:9, Romans 3:26, 1 Peter 1:17
is in: Zephaniah 3:15, Zephaniah 3:17, Deuteronomy 23:14, Isaiah 12:6, Ezekiel 48:35, Micah 3:11, Zechariah 2:5
he will: Genesis 18:25, Job 8:3, Job 34:10, Job 34:17-19
every morning: Heb. morning by morning, Isaiah 28:19, Isaiah 33:2, Isaiah 50:4, Jeremiah 21:12, Lamentations 3:23
bring: Psalms 37:6, Isaiah 42:3, Isaiah 42:4, Micah 7:9, Luke 12:2, Romans 2:5, 1 Corinthians 4:5
but: Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 6:15, Jeremiah 8:12
Reciprocal: Psalms 92:15 - and Isaiah 26:7 - most Jeremiah 12:1 - Righteous Lamentations 1:18 - Lord Ezekiel 18:25 - my Hosea 6:5 - and thy judgments are as Hosea 14:9 - for Romans 2:2 - judgment 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go Revelation 15:3 - just
Cross-References
But as touching the tree of knowlege of good and euyll thou shalt not eate of it: For in what daye so euer thou eatest therof, thou shalt dye the death.
And the woman sayde vnto the serpent: We eate of ye fruite of the trees of the garden.
But as for the fruite of the tree which is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde, ye shall not eate of it, neither shal ye touche of it, lest peraduenture ye dye.
And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate.
Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sowed fygge leaues together, & made them selues apernes.
Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.
And the lord god said vnto ye serpent: Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the fielde: vpon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy lyfe.
I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.
And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The just Lord [is] in the midst thereof,.... In the midst of the city of Jerusalem, where those princes, judges, prophets and priests, were, that behaved so ill, and saw and observed all their evil actions; and yet they were not deterred from them by his presence, even though he is the "just" and Holy One, who loves righteousness, and hates iniquity, and will punish for it; nor were they directed and allured to do what is righteous and good by his example. This character of the just Lord well agrees with Christ, who is perfectly righteous in both his natures, and in the execution of his offices; and is the author of righteousness to his people; and this is to be understood of his incarnation and personal presence in human nature in Jerusalem, and in the temple, where he taught his doctrine, and wrought his miracles:
he will not do iniquity; Christ was holy in his nature, harmless in his life; he knew no sin; he did not commit any; no violence was done by him, or guile found in him; he was not guilty of sin against God, nor of doing any injury to men; and should have been imitated by the men of the age in which he lived, as well as by others; and should have been valued and esteemed, and not traduced and vilified as he was, as if he had been the worst of men:
every morning doth he bring his judgment to light; the doctrine of the Gospel, which he set in the clearest light, and preached with the greatest constancy, day after day, morning by morning, and very early in the morning, when the people came to hear him in the temple; and he continued in it all the day; he waking morning by morning to this service, as was predicted of him, Isaiah 1:4 see Luke 21:37:
he faileth not; in this work of preaching the word, with the greatest evidence and assiduity:
but the unjust knoweth no shame: those unjust persons, who aspersed the character of Christ, and traduced his doctrine and miracles; though there was nothing in his life, nor in his ministry, that could be justly blamed, yet they blushed not at their sin and wickedness; and though they were sharply reproved by him, and their errors in principle, and sins in practice, were exposed by him, yet they were not ashamed; such were the hardness and obduracy of their hearts.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But, beside these “evening wolves in the midst of her,” there standeth Another “in the midst of her,” whom they knew not, and so, very near to them although they would not draw near to Him. But He was near, to behold all the iniquities which they did in the very city and place called by His Name and in His very presence; He was in her to protect, foster her with a father’s love, but she, presuming on His mercy, had cast it off. And so He was near to punish, not to deliver; as a Judge, not as a Saviour. Dionysius: “God is everywhere, Who says by Jeremiah, ‘I fill heaven and earth’ Jeremiah 23:24. But since, as Solomon attesteth, ‘The Lord is far from the wicked’ Proverbs 15:29, how is He said here to be in the midst of these most wicked men? Because the Lord is far from the wicked, as regards the presence of love and grace; still in His Essence He is everywhere, and in this way He is equally present to all.”
The Lord is in the midst thereof; He will not do iniquity - Dionysius: “Since He is the primal rule and measure of all righteousness; therefore from the very fact that He doeth anything, it is just, for He cannot do amiss, being essentially holy. Therefore He will give to every man what he deserves. Therefore we chant, ‘The Lord is upright, and there is no unrighteousness in Him’ Psalms 92:15.” justice and injustice, purity and impurity, cannot be together. God’s presence then must destroy the sinners, if not the sin. He was “in the midst of them,” to sanctify them, giving them His judgments as a pattern of theirs; “He will not do iniquity:” but if they heeded it not, the judgment would fall upon themselves. It were for God to become “such an one as themselves” Psalms 50:21, and to connive at wickedness, were He to spare at last the impenitent.
Every morning - (Literally, in the morning, in the morning) one after the other, quickly, openly, daily, continually, bringing all secret things, all works of darkness, to light, as He said to David, “Thou didst it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun” 2 Samuel 12:12. Doth He bring His judgments to light,” so that no sin should be hidden in the brightness of His Light, as He said by Hosea, “Thy judgments are a light which goeth forth.” Cyril: “Morning by morning, He shall execute His judgments, that is, in bright day and visibly, not restraining His anger, but bringing it forth in the midst, and making it conspicuous, and, as it were, setting in open vision what He had foreannounced.” Day by day God gives some warning of His judgments. By chastisements which are felt to be His on this side or on that or all around, He gives ensamples which speak to the sinner’s heart. “He faileth not.” As God said by Habakkuk, that His promises, although they seem to “linger,” were not “behind” Habakkuk 2:3 the real time, which lay in the Divine Mind, so, contrariwise, neither are His judgments. His hand is never missing at the appointed time. “But the unjust,” he, whose very being and character, “iniquity,” is the exact contrary to what he had said of the perfection of God, “Who doth not iniquity,” or, as Moses had taught them in his song, “all His ways are judgment, a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He” Deuteronomy 32:4. “Knoweth no shame,” as God saith by Jeremiah, “Thou refusedst to be ashamed” Jeremiah 3:3. They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush” Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 8:12. Even thus they would not be ashamed of their sins, “that they might be converted and God might heal them” Isaiah 6:10.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 5. The just Lord is in the midst thereof — He sees, marks down, and will punish all these wickednesses.
Every morning doth he bring his judgment to light — The sense is, says Bp. Newcome, "Not a day passes but we see instances of his goodness to righteous men, and of his vengeance on the wicked."
