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Seek ye the Lord; turn to him with sound and true repentance, pray for pardon, engage in new obedience, inquire in the law what is your duty, and do it; fear, worship, depend on the Lord alone.
All ye meek; ye humble ones, who have not hardened yourselves with the stubborn, proud, idolatrous hypocrites, but have trembled at the word of the Lord.
Of the earth; of Judea, which is here spoken of, as Zep_1:2.
Which have wrought his judgment; obeyed his precepts; so doth the Scripture express obedience to the law of God by doing judgment, Deu_4:5 Psa_119:121.
Seek righteousness; inquire and know the righteousness which God commandeth, which you ought to persist in, and continue ye in it.
Seek meekness; carry it humbly towards God, and patiently under his corrections; so wait on the just and merciful God.
It may be: this is sufficient to raise hope; if it be not sure, if it be hard, yet it is not impossible.
Ye shall be hid; under the wing of Divine protecting Providence kept safe from, or in, these troubles they shall be either averted or abated.