Sofonias 3:8

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Portanto, esperai-me a mim, diz o SENHOR, no dia em que eu me levantar para o despojo; porque o meu juzo ajuntar as naes e congregar os reinos, para sobre eles derramar a minha indignao e todo o ardor da minha ira; porque toda esta terra ser consumida pelo fogo do meu zelo.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Portanto esperai-me, diz o SENHOR, no dia em que eu me levantar para o despojo; porque o meu decreto ajuntar as naes e congregar os reinos, para sobre eles derramar a minha indignao, e todo o ardor da minha ira; porque toda esta terra ser consumida pelo fogo do meu zelo.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Esperai-me, pois, a mim, diz o SENHOR, no dia em que eu me levantar para o despojo; porque a minha resoluo ajuntar as naes e congregar os reinos, para sobre eles fazer cair a minha maldio e todo o furor da minha ira; pois toda esta terra ser devorada pelo fogo do meu zelo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wait: Psalms 27:14, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 62:1, Psalms 62:5, Psalms 123:2, Psalms 130:5, Psalms 130:6, Proverbs 20:22, Isaiah 30:18, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Hosea 12:6, Micah 7:7, James 5:7, James 5:8

rise: Psalms 12:5, Psalms 78:65, Psalms 78:66, Isaiah 42:13, Isaiah 42:14, Isaiah 59:16-18

to gather: Ezekiel 38:14-23, Joel 3:2, Joel 3:9-16, Micah 4:11-13, Zechariah 14:2, Zechariah 14:3, Matthew 25:32, Revelation 16:14, Revelation 19:17-19

for all: Zephaniah 1:18, Deuteronomy 32:21, Deuteronomy 32:22, Song of Solomon 8:6, Ezekiel 36:5, Ezekiel 36:6, Ezekiel 38:19, 2 Peter 3:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:14 - General Numbers 25:11 - that I Deuteronomy 4:24 - a jealous God Psalms 9:19 - Arise Psalms 78:49 - cast Psalms 79:5 - jealousy Psalms 82:8 - Arise Isaiah 30:27 - heavy Isaiah 31:2 - arise Isaiah 33:10 - Now will I rise Isaiah 34:2 - the indignation Isaiah 59:19 - shall they Jeremiah 25:32 - and a Jeremiah 45:5 - I will bring Ezekiel 38:15 - and many Joel 3:11 - Assemble Zephaniah 2:2 - the decree Haggai 2:22 - overthrow Zechariah 2:13 - for Hebrews 10:27 - fiery 2 Peter 3:7 - the heavens

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord,.... Or "nevertheless" f: this is said to the disciples and followers of Christ among the Jews; for there were some few that did fear the Lord, and received his doctrine, and submitted to his ordinances, and walked in his ways; and these are encouraged to wait upon the Lord; upon the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; or for him, and to expect that he would appear, and work salvation and deliverance for them, when distress should come upon the unbelieving Jews:

until the day that I rise up to the prey: until the day that he rose from the dead, quickly after which he ascended to heaven, leading captivity captive; Satan, and his principalities and powers, which he made a prey and spoil of upon the cross: or, till I rise "up for a testimony", or witness g; of his being the true Messiah; for his resurrection from the dead was the signal he gave as a testimony of it,

Matthew 12:39. Some render it, "till I rise up to perpetuity": or, "for ever" h; for, when Christ rose from the dead, he rose to an immortal life, never to die more; and ever live he does to make intercession for his people, to secure their happiness for them, and to preserve them unto it; and therefore they have great encouragement to wait upon him, and for him:

for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms; not the Chaldeans or Babylonians, as some; nor the armies of Gog and Magog, as Kimchi; but the Romans under Titus Vespasian, with whom were people of many nations, who came against Jerusalem, according to the decree, will, and appointment of God:

to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger; not upon the nations and kingdoms assembled; but by them upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judea, against whom they would be gathered; who had corrupted their doings, and provoked the Lord to stir up and pour out all his wrath upon them, in utterly destroying their nation, city, and temple: and the apostle, speaking of the same thing, at least of the beginning of it, calls it "wrath upon them to the uttermost": and which answers to the expressions of the Lord's indignation, and all his fierce anger, here used, 1 Thessalonians 2:16:

for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy; not the whole world, and the several nations of it; but the whole land of Judea, and its inhabitants. The same phrase is used of the destruction of it by the Babylonians, Zephaniah 1:18 and which shows, that not that destruction, but the destruction by the Romans, is here meant; or otherwise a tautology is here committed; but the following words show clearly that this respects, not the former, but the latter destruction of Jerusalem; since a pure language was not given to the nations or Gentiles after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians; but has been since it was destroyed by the Romans; and which was in a few years after Christ's resurrection from the dead, predicted in the beginning of this verse; by which may be observed the connection of things in this prophecy.

f לכן, as in Hos. ii. 14. See Noldius. g לעד εις μαρτυριον, Sept. h "In futurum", V. L. "in perpetuum", some in Calvin; so Abendana; "in perpetuitatem", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore wait ye upon - (for) Me God so willeth not to punish, but that all should lay hold of His mercy, that He doth not here even name punishment. Judah had slighted His mercies; He was ready to forgive all they had sinned, if they would “now” receive instruction; they in return set themselves to corrupt “all” their doings. They had wholly forsaken Him. “Therefore” - we should have expected, as elsewhere, “Therefore I will visit all your iniquities upon you.” But not so. The chastisement is all veiled; the prophet points only to the mercy beyond. “Therefore wait ye for Me.” All the interval of chastisement is summed up in these words; that is, since neither My mercies toward you, nor My chastisement of others, lead you to obey Me, “therefore” the time shall be, when My Providence shall not seem to be over you, nor My presence among you (see Hosea 3:3-5); but then, “wait ye for Me” earnestly, intensely, perseveringly, “until the day, that I rise up to the prey.” “The day” is probably in the first instance, the deliverance from Babylon. But the words seem to be purposely enlarged, that they may embrace other judgments of God also.

For the words to “gather the nations, assemble the kingdoms,” describe some array of nations against God and His people; gathering themselves for their own end at that time, but, in His purpose, gathering themselves for their own destruction, rather than the mere tranquil reunion of those of different nations in the city of Babylon, when the Medes and Persians came against them. Nor again are they altogether fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem, or any other event until now. For although then a vast number of the dispersed Jews were collected together, and were at that time “broken off” Romans 11:20 and out of covenant with God, they could hardly be called “nations,” (which are here and before Zeph. 5:6 spoken of in contrast with Judah), much less “kingdoms.” In its fullest sense the prophecy seems to belong to the same events in the last struggle of Anti-Christ, as at the close of Joel Joel 3:2, Joel 3:9-16 and Zechariah Zechariah 14:0.

With this agrees the largeness of the destruction; “to pour out upon them,” in full measure, emptying out so as to overwhelm them, “Mine indignation, even all My fierce anger, for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy” (see Psalms 69:24; Psalms 79:6; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 10:25; Jeremiah 14:16; Ezekiel 21:31; Revelation 16:1). The outpouring of all God’s wrath, the devouring of the whole earth, in the fullest sense of the words, belongs to the end of the world, when He shall say to the wicked, “Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.” In lesser degrees, and less fully, the substance of the prophecy has again and again been fulfilled to the Jewish Church before Christ, at Babylon and under the Maccabees; and to the Christian, as when the Muslims hemmed in Christendom on all sides, and the waves of their conquests on the east and west threatened to meet, overwhelming Christendom. The Church, having sinned, had to “wait” for a while “for God” who by His Providence withdrew Himself, yet at last delivered it.

And since the whole history of the Church lies wrapt up in the Person of the Redeemer, “the day that I rise up to the prey,” is especially the Day in which the foundation of His Church was laid, or that in which it shall be completed; the Day whereon He rose again, as the first-fruits, or that Day in which He shall “stand again on the earth” , to judge it; “so coming even as He went up into heaven” Acts 1:11. Then, “the prey” must be, what God vouch-safes to account as His gain, “the prey” which is “taken from the mighty” Isaiah 49:24-25, and “the lawful captivity, the prey of the terrible one,” which shall be delivered; even that spoil which the Father bestowed on Him “Who made His soul an offering for sin” Isaiah 53:10, Isaiah 53:12, the goods of the strong man Matthew 12:29 whom He bound, and spoiled us, His lawful goods and captives, since we had “sold” (Romans 7:14, coll; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 52:3) ourselves “under sin” to him. Cyril: “Christ lived again having spoiled hell, because “it was not possible” (as it is written) “that He,” being by nature Life, “should be holden of death” Acts 2:24.

Here, where spoken of with relation to the Church, “the jealousy” of Almighty God is that love for His people (see the note at Nahum 1:2), which will not endure their ill-treatment by those who (as all anti-Christian power does) make themselves His rivals in the government of the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. Wait ye upon me — Expect the fulfilment of all my promises and threatenings: I am God, and change not.

For all the earth — All the land of Judah.