Zephaniah 3:18

WEB

¹⁸I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.

KJV

¹⁸I will gather^[+] them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

BSB

¹⁸“I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.

FBV

¹⁸I will gather those of you who mourn for the religious festivals—you will no longer have to bear the disgrace.

Extra References

Psalms 42:2-4

²^[+] My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? ³My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?” ⁴These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Zephaniah 3:20

²⁰At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the LORD.

Lamentations 2:6-7

⁶He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest. ⁷The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the LORD’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

Ezekiel 36:24

²⁴“‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Lamentations 1:4

⁴The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

Jeremiah 31:8-9

⁸Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company. ⁹They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 23:3

³“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.

Romans 11:25-26

²⁵For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers,^[+] of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, ²⁶and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

Ezekiel 34:13

¹³I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

Psalms 43:3

³Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.