Sofonias 3:7

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Eu dizia: Certamente me temers e aceitars a correo; e assim a sua morada no seria destruda, conforme o que havia determinado; mas eles se levantaram de madrugada, corromperam todas as suas obras.

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A Biblia Sagrada
Eu dizia: Certamente me temers, e aceitars a correo, e assim a sua morada no seria destruda, conforme tudo aquilo porque a castiguei; mas eles se levantaram de madrugada, corromperam todas as suas obras.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Eu dizia: certamente, me temers e aceitars a disciplina, e, assim, a sua morada no seria destruda, segundo o que havia determinado; mas eles se levantaram de madrugada e corromperam todos os seus atos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Surely: Zephaniah 3:2, Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 63:8, Jeremiah 8:6, Jeremiah 36:3, Luke 19:42-44, 2 Peter 3:9

so: Jeremiah 7:7, Jeremiah 17:25-27, Jeremiah 25:5, Jeremiah 38:17

howsoever: 2 Chronicles 28:6-8, 2 Chronicles 32:1, 2 Chronicles 32:2, 2 Chronicles 33:11, 2 Chronicles 36:3-10

they: Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2

corrupted: Genesis 6:12, Deuteronomy 4:16, Hosea 9:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:5 - They have corrupted themselves Nehemiah 1:7 - corruptly Psalms 99:8 - thou wast Jeremiah 5:3 - thou hast stricken Jeremiah 6:8 - Be thou Jeremiah 7:28 - correction Jeremiah 17:23 - nor Ezekiel 6:6 - all your Ezekiel 24:13 - because Ezekiel 30:3 - the time Hosea 10:9 - did Matthew 21:37 - They 1 Corinthians 10:6 - these Revelation 2:22 - except

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I said, Surely thou wilt fear me,.... This is spoken after the manner of men; as if God should say within himself, and reason in his own mind, upon a view of things, surely the people of the Jews will take notice of my judgments executed on other nations, and will stand in awe of me on account of them; and fear to offend me, lest the same calamities should come upon them; this, humanly speaking, might be reasonably thought would be the case:

thou wilt receive instruction; by these judgments, taking warning by them; repent, reform, and amend, and thereby escape the like:

so their dwelling should not be cut off; or, "its dwelling"; the dwelling of the city of Jerusalem, the houses in it; the dwelling places of the inhabitants of it; the singular being put for the plural; unless the temple should be meant, as Abendana interprets it; and so it may be rendered "his dwelling" c; their house, which was left desolate to them, because they feared not the Lord; nor received instruction by the example of others; nor repented of their sins, and altered their course of life; which, if done, their dwelling would have been preserved, Matthew 23:38:

howsoever I punished them; or "visited" d them; chastised them in a gentle manner, in order to reform them, but in vain. Some render it, "all which I committed to them" e; the oracles of God, his word and ordinances, his promises, and the blessings of his goodness, which he deposited with them, in order to do them good, and bring them to repentance. The Targum is,

"all the good things which I have said unto them (or promised them), I will bring unto them;''

and to the same sense Jarchi. The goodness of God should have brought them to repentance, yet it did not:

but they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings; they were diligent and industrious eager and early, in the commission of sins, in doing corrupt and abominable works; receiving and tenaciously adhering to the traditions of the elders; seeking to establish their own righteousness, not submitting to Christ's; rejecting him the true Messiah; blaspheming his doctrines, despising his ordinances, and persecuting his people; besides other vices, which abounded among them; for which the wrath of God came upon them to the uttermost, as expressed in the following verse, Zephaniah 3:8.

c מעונה "habitaculum; [vel] habitatio ejus", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Burkius "mansio ejus", Cocceius. d פקדתי "visitavi", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus. e "Omne id quod commendavi illi", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I said, surely thou wilt fear Me - God speaks of things here, as they are in their own nature. “It could not but be,” that in the very presence of the Hand of God, destroying others but as yet sparing them, they must learn to fear Him; they must stand in awe of Him for His judgments on others; they must be in filial fear of Him for His loving longsuffering toward themselves. “Thou ‘wilt’ receive instruction,” corrected and taught through God’s correction of others and the lighter judgments on themselves, as Solomon says, “I looked, I set my heart: I saw, I received instruction” Proverbs 24:32. He saith, “receive,” making it man’s free act. God brings it near, commends it to him, exhorts, entreats, but leaves him the awful power to “receive” or to refuse. God speaks with a wonderful tenderness. “Surely thou ‘wilt’ stand in awe of Me; thou ‘wilt’ receive instruction; thou wilt now do what hitherto thou hast refused to do.” There was (so to speak) nothing else left for them, in sight of those judgments. He pleads their own interests. The lightning was ready to fall. The prophet had, in vision, seen the enemy within the city. Yet even now God lingers, as it were, “If thou hadst known in this thy day, the things which are for thy peace” Luke 19:42.

So their - (her) dwelling should not be cut off His own holy land which He had given them. A Jew paraphrases , “And He will not cut off their dwellings from the land of the house of My Shechinah” (God’s visible presence in glory). Judah, who was before addressed “thou,” is now spoken of in the third person, “her;” and this also had wonderful tenderness. It is as though God were musing over her and the blessed fruits of her return to Him; “it shall not be needed to correct her further.” “Howsoever I punished them:” literally, “all” (that is, ‘all’ the offences) “which I visited upon her,” as God saith of Himself, “‘visiting’ the ‘sins’ of the fathers ‘upon’ the children” Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:7; Numbers 14:18, and this is mostly the meaning of the words “visit upon.” Amid and not withstanding all the offences which God had already chastised, He, in His love and compassion, still longeth, not utterly to remove them from His presence, if they would but receive instruction “now;” but they would not. “How often,” our Lord says, “would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not” Matthew 23:37. “But indeed,” “probably, Of a truth” (it is a word strongly affirming what follows) “they rose early, they corrupted all their doings;” God gave them His warnings, awaited the result; they lost no time, they began with morning light; they hasted to rise, burdened themselves, made sure of having the whole day before them, to - seek God as He had sent His prophets, “rising early and sending them?” Jeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19.

No, nor even simply to do ill, but of set purpose. to do, not this or that corruptly, but “to corrupt all their doings.” Jerome: “They with diligence and eagerness rose early, that, with the same haste wherewith they ought to have returned to Me, they might shew forth in deed what they had conceived amiss in their mind.” There are as many aggravations of their sin as there are words. The four Hebrew words bespeak eagerness, willfulness, completeness enormity, in sin. They “rose early,” themselves deliberately “corrupted,” of their own mind made offensive, “all” their “doings,” not slight acts, but “deeds,” great works done with a high hand .

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. Surely thou wilt fear me — After so many displays of my sovereign power and judgments.

But they rose early — And instead of returning to God, they practised every abomination. They were diligent to find out times and places for their iniquity. This is the worst state of man.