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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Zephaniah 3:5 - 3:5
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The Jews regard not God’s justice manifested in the midst of them, nor His judgments on the guilty nations around.
The just Lord - Why then are ye so unjust?
is in the midst thereof - He retorts on them their own boast, “Is not the Lord among us” (Mic 3:11)? True He is, but it is for another end from what ye think [Calvin]; namely, to lead you by the example of His righteousness to be righteous. Lev 19:2, “Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy” [Maurer]. But Calvin, “That ye may feel His hand to be the nearer for taking vengeance for your crimes: ‘He will not do iniquity’ by suffering your sins to go unpunished” (Deu 32:4).
every morning - literally, “morning by morning.” The time in the sultry East for dispensing justice.
bring ... to light - publicly and manifestly by the teaching of His prophets, which aggravates their guilt; also by samples of His judgments on the guilty.
he faileth not - He is continually setting before you samples of His justice, sparing no pains. Compare Isa 5:4; Isa 50:4, “he wakeneth morning by morning.”
knoweth no shame - The unjust Jews are not shamed by His justice into repentance.