Zephaniah 3:17

Yahweh is present as a mighty Savior who rejoices over His people, quiets them in His love, and sings over them. It matters because it reveals the depth of God's delight in those He redeems.

Cross-references · 26

• Ps 149:4For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.
• Ps 147:11The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
• Heb 7:25Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
• Isa 62:4–5No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
• Jer 32:41Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
• Isa 12:2Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
• Zeph 3:15The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
• Deut 30:9So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your goodness, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
• Isa 65:19I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
• John 15:11I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
• Num 14:8If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
• Luke 15:23–24Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.
• Isa 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
• Zeph 3:5The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
• Luke 15:5–6And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
• Luke 15:32But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
• John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
• Gen 1:31And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
• Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
• Gen 18:14Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
• Isa 63:12who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
• Isa 18:4For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
• Isa 63:1Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
• Ps 24:8–10Who is this King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
• Gen 2:2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

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