The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
The reassembled remnant exults because God has removed judgment and cleared away every enemy. Jehovah once more stands as King in the midst of His congregation, and she will see evil no more. The heaping up of words for rejoicing matches the magnitude of the salvation prepared.
AI summary
Commenting on Zephaniah 3:14-17
The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. (k) That is, the punishment for your sin. (l) As the Assyrians, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, and other nations. (m) To defend you, as by your sins you have put him away, and left yourself naked, as in .
The Lord hath taken away thy judgments Both outward and inward; not only exile, poverty, contempt and reproach among the nations of the earth; but hardness of heart, blindness of mind, impenitence and unbelief, to which the Jews are now given up, in a judicial way; but at this time these shall be removed, through the goodness of God unto them, and the power of...