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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 again, even in 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 turn back 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 folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. (Jer. 23:3)
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Jer. 31:8‑9• 8Behold I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither{i}.
 9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am 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 people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. (Ezek. 34:13)
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Ezek. 36:24• 24For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. (Ezek. 36:24)
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Hos. 1:11• 11Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of Jezreel. (Hos. 1:11)
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Rom. 11:25‑26• 25For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, that ye be not wise in your own eyes, that hardness hath happened in part to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in;
 26and so all Israel shall be saved, even as it is written, “There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer; he shall turn away ungodlinesses from Jacob. (Rom. 11:25‑26)
sorrowful.
Psa. 42:2‑4• 2My soul hath thirsted for God, for the living God:{HR}When shall I come and appear before God?
 3My tears have been food to me by day and by night,{HR}Whilst they say unto me all the day, Where [is] thy God?
 4These things do I remember, and I pour out my soul within me;{HR}When I pass through the crowd, I go softly with them{HR}Unto the house of God with the voice of singing and praise,{HR}A multitude keeping a feast. (Psa. 42:2‑4)
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Psa. 43:3• 3Send thou thy light and thy truth: they shall lead me,{HR}They shall bring me unto the mountain of thy holiness and unto thy tabernacles. (Psa. 43:3)
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Psa. 63:1‑2• 1A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.{HR}O God, my God [art] thou;{HR}Early will I seek thee.{HR}For thee thirsteth my soul,{HR}For thee longeth my flesh,{HR}In a land dry and weary without water;
 2So as I have beheld thee in the holy place,{HR}To see thy power and thy glory; (Psa. 63:1‑2)
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Psa. 84:1‑2• 1To the chief musician on the Gittith; for the sons of Korah, a psalm.{HR}How lovely [are] thy tabernacles,{HR}O Jehovah of hosts!
 2My soul longeth, yea even fainteth,{HR}For the courts of Jehovah;{HR}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 our captors asked us words of song,{HR}And our spoilers mirth, [saying] Sing to us from a song of Zion.
 4How shall we sing the song of Jehovah on a strange ground?
 5If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill].
 6Let my tongue cleave to my palate, if I do not remember thee,{HR}If I do not raise Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Psa. 137:3‑6)
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Lam. 1:4,7• 4{i}The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly:{HR}All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief;{HR}And as for her, she is in bitterness.{/i}
 7Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries{HR}All her pleasant things that she had in the days of old,{HR}When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:{HR}The adversaries saw her, and did mock at her Sabbaths. (Lam. 1:4,7)
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Lam. 2:6‑7• 6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden:{HR}He hath destroyed his places of the assembly.{HR}Jehovah hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,{HR}And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
 7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,{HR}He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;{HR}They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn feast. (Lam. 2:6‑7)
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Hos. 9:5• 5What will ye do on the day of assembly, on the day of Jehovah’s feast? (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.