Matthew Poole Commentary - Zephaniah 3:7 - 3:7

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Zephaniah 3:7 - 3:7


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I said; I thought, (speaking as man would,) I concluded what was likely, what I might expect.



Surely thou, O Jerusalem, O Judah, wilt fear me, for the many and great judgments executed upon others in thy sight; thou wilt fear, by sinning still, to provoke me.



Thou wilt receive instruction; wilt learn thy duty, to do it; thy danger, to prevent it; thy sins, to repent of them; thy ways, to amend them.



So their dwelling, houses, villages, Jerusalem,



should not be out off, sacked and burned,



howsoever I punished them; whatever I had done against them, however I had chastised them, had they been bettered, humbled, and amended, I would have spared, not destroyed utterly.



But they rose early; but they grew worse, more eager in the pursuit of their vile courses; as if the day would be too short for their sins, they rise early, and begin betimes.



Corrupted all their doings; designedly and out of set purpose did worse and worse, when smitten they revolted more and more, Isa_1:5.