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Zephaniah 3

Zeph. 3:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I will gather
'acaph (Hebrew #622)
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
Pronounce: aw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
them that are sorrowful
yagah (Hebrew #3013)
to grieve
KJV usage: afflict, cause grief, grieve, sorrowful, vex.
Pronounce: yaw-gaw'
Origin: a primitive root
for the solemn assembly
mow`ed (Hebrew #4150)
or (feminine) moweadah (2 Chronicles 8:13) {mo-aw-daw'}; from 3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)
KJV usage: appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
Pronounce: mo-ade'
Origin: or moled {mo-ade'}
, who are of thee, to whom ηthe reproach
cherpah (Hebrew #2781)
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda
KJV usage: rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame.
Pronounce: kher-paw'
Origin: from 2778
of it was a burden
mas'eth (Hebrew #4864)
properly, (abstractly) a raising (as of the hands in prayer), or rising (of flame); figuratively, an utterance; concretely, a beacon (as raised); a present (as taken), mess, or tribute; figuratively, a reproach (as a burden)
KJV usage: burden, collection, sign of fire, (great) flame, gift, lifting up, mess, oblation, reward.
Pronounce: mas-ayth'
Origin: from 5375
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the burden upon it was reproach.

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gather.
Zeph. 3:20• 20At that time will I bring you, yea, at the time that I gather you; for I will make you a name and a praise, among all the peoples of the earth, when I shall turn again your captivity before your eyes, saith Jehovah. (Zeph. 3:20)
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Jer. 23:3• 3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their pastures; and they shall be fruitful and shall multiply. (Jer. 23:3)
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Jer. 31:8‑9• 8Behold, I bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth; and among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great assemblage shall they return hither.
 9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. (Jer. 31:8‑9)
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Ezek. 34:13• 13And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the water-courses, and in all the habitable places of the country. (Ezek. 34:13)
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Ezek. 36:24• 24And I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. (Ezek. 36:24)
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Hos. 1:11• 11And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land: for great is the day of Jizreel. (Hos. 1:11)
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Rom. 11:25‑26• 25For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;
 26and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. (Rom. 11:25‑26)
sorrowful.
Psa. 42:2‑4• 2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living *God: when shall I come and appear before God?
 3My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
 4These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude. (Psa. 42:2‑4)
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Psa. 43:3• 3Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations. (Psa. 43:3)
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Psa. 63:1‑2• 1A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my *God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:
 2To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in the sanctuary; (Psa. 63:1‑2)
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Psa. 84:1‑2• 1To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!
 2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living *God. (Psa. 84:1‑2)
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Psa. 137:3‑6• 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
 4How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?
 5If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill;
 6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Psa. 137:3‑6)
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Lam. 1:4,7• 4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief; and as for her, she is in bitterness.
 7In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin. (Lam. 1:4,7)
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Lam. 2:6‑7• 6And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.
 7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath rejected his sanctuary; he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: they have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as on the day of a set feast. (Lam. 2:6‑7)
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Hos. 9:5• 5What will ye do in the day of assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah? (Hos. 9:5)
the reproach of it was a burden.
Heb. the burden upon it wasreproach.

J. N. Darby Translation

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I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn assembliesc, who were of thee: the reproach of it was a burden unto them.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "set feast."

W. Kelly Translation

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I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.