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, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
• Isa 26:20–21Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
• Ps 76:9when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.
• Jer 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Jonah 3:9Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
• Ps 22:26The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
• Ps 105:4Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Prov 18:10Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
• Jer 39:18For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me,’ says Yahweh.”
• Hos 10:12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
• Ps 57:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
• Col 3:2–4Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
• Ps 91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest 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 forever. Amen.
• Jer 45:5Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.’”
• 1 Pet 3:4but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• Matt 5:5Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
• Amos 5:4–6For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
• Joel 2:13–14Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
• Jas 1:21–22Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Matt 7:7–8“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• Ps 31:20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
• Phil 3:13–14Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
• 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 inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
• Exod 12:27that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
• Isa 11:4but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
• Jer 3:13–14Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”
• Ps 32:6–7For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
• Hos 7:10The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
• Jer 4:1–2“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;
• Ps 149:4For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• 2 Sam 12:22He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
• Gen 7:15–16Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.
• Zech 8:19Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
• 1 Th 4:10for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

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