Zephaniah 3

^{1 a} That is, Jerusalem.

^{3 b} They are so griedy that they eat vp bones and all.

^{4 !} Against the gouerners of Jerusalem.

^{5 c} The wicked thus boasted that God was euer among them, but the Prophet answereth that that can not excuse their wickednes: for God wil not beare with their sinnes: yet that he did paciently abide and sent his Prophetes continually to call them to repentance, but it profited nothing.

^{6 d} By the destruction of other nations he sheweth that the Jewes shulde haue learned to feare God.

^{7 e} They were moste earnest & ready to do wickedly.

^{8 !} Of the calling of all the Gentiles.

^{8 f} Seing ye wil not repent, you shal loke for my vengeance aswel as other nations.

^{9 g} Lest any shulde thinke them that Gods glorie shulde haue perished when Judah was destroyed, he sheweth that he wil publish his grace through all the worlde.

^{10 h} That is, the Jewes shal come aswel as the Gentiles: which is to be vnderstand vnder the time of the Gospel.

^{11 i} For they shal haue ful remissions of their sinnes: and the hyprocrites which boasted of the Temple, which was also thy pride in time past, shalbe taken from thee.

^{13 !} A comfort to the residue of Israel.

^{15 k} That is, the punishment for the sinne.

^{15 l} As the Assyrians, Caldeans, Egyptians, and other nations.

^{15 m} To defende thee as by thy sinnes thou hast put him away and left thy selfe naked, as {Exod. 32,25}.

^{17 n} Signifying, that God deliteth to shewe his loue and great affection toward his Church.

^{18 o} That is, them that were had in hatred and reuiled for the Church and because of their religion.

^{19 p} I wil deliuer the Church which now is afflicted, as {Micah 4,6}.

^{19 q} As among the Assyrians, and Caldeans which did mocke them and put them to shame.