Zephaniah 2

^{1 a} He exhorteth them to repentance & willeth them to descend into them selves & gather them selves together, lest they be scattered like chaffe.

^{1 !} He moueth to returne to God.

^{3 b} That is, which haue liued vprightly & godly according as he prescribeth by his worde.

^{4 c} He comforteht the faithful in that that God wolde change his punishments from them vnto the Philstims their enemies and other nacions.

^{5 !} Prophecying destruction against the Philistems, Moabites & others.

^{5 d} That is, Galilea: by these nacions he meaneth the people that dwelt nere to the Jewes and instead of friendship were their enemies: therefore he calleth them Canaanites whome the Lord appointed to be slaine.

^{7 e} He sheweth why God wolde destroy their enemies, because their countrei might be a resting place for his Church.

^{8 f} These nacions presumed to take from the Jewes that countrey which the Lord had giuen them.

^{11 g} When he shal deliuer his people and destroy their enemies and idoles, his glorie shal shine throughout all the worlde.

^{14 h} Read {Isa. 34:11}.

^{14 /} Or, hedgehogge.

^{15 i} Meaning, Nineueh, which rejoycing so muche of her strength and prosperitie, shulde be thus made waste & Gods people deliuered.