Zephaniah 2:3

The humble are urged to seek Yahweh, righteousness, and humility, that they may be sheltered in the day of His anger. It matters because it points the way to refuge amid coming judgment.

Cross-references · 40

• Amos 5:14–15Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
• Isa 26:20–21Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
• Ps 76:9when God rose up to judge, to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah
• Jer 29:12–13Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
• Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
• Ps 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
• Ps 105:4Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Prov 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
• Jer 39:18For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.’”
• Hos 10:12Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
• Ps 57:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
• Col 3:2–4Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
• Ps 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
• Jer 45:5But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”
• 1 Pet 3:4but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• 1 Th 4:1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
• Matt 5:5Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
• Amos 5:4–6For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
• Joel 2:13–14So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
• Jas 1:21–22Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
• Matt 7:7–8Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
• Ps 31:20You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
• Phil 3:13–14Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
• 2 Chr 34:27–28because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
• Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
• Exod 12:27you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
• Isa 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
• Jer 3:13–14Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
• Ps 32:6–7Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
• Hos 7:10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.
• Jer 4:1–2“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
• Ps 149:4For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• 2 Sam 12:22David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
• Gen 7:15–16They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
• Zech 8:19“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
• 1 Th 4:10And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more

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