Zephaniah 3:12

Brenton's Septuagint

And I will leave in thee a meek and lowly people;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will leavea meek and humble people among you,and they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
I will also leaue in the middest of thee an afflicted and poore people: and they shall trust in the Name of the Lord.

King James Version
I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord .

English Standard Version
But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord ,

New American Standard Bible
"But I will leave among you A humble and lowly people, And they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.

New Century Version
But I will leave in the city the humble and those who are not proud, and they will trust in the Lord .

Amplified Bible
"But I will leave among you A humble and lowly people, And they will take refuge and trust confidently in the name of the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then will I leaue in the middes of thee an humble and poore people: and they shall trust in the Name of the Lord.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But I will leave among you A humble and lowly people, And they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
But I will cause to remain in your midstA lowly and poor people,And they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
But I will leave within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
But I, the Lord , won't destroy any of your people who are truly humble and turn to me for safety.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will leave among you a poor and afflicted people, who will find their refuge in the name of Adonai ."

Darby Translation
And I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of Jehovah.

Easy-to-Read Version
I will let only meek and humble people stay in my city, and they will trust the Lord 's name.

George Lamsa Translation
I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and humble people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

Good News Translation
I will leave there a humble and lowly people, who will come to me for help.

Lexham English Bible
And I will leave in your midst a people afflicted and poor, and they shall take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

Literal Translation
I will also leave a poor and weak people in your midst, and they shall trust in the name of Jehovah.

American Standard Version
But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of the LORD.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
In thee also will I leaue a smal poore simple people, whiche shall trust in the name of the Lorde.

English Revised Version
But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

World English Bible
But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal leeue in the myddil of thee a pore puple and nedi; and thei schulen hope in the name of the Lord.

Update Bible Version
But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

New English Translation
I will leave in your midst a humble and meek group of people, and they will find safety in the Lord 's presence.

New King James Version
I will leave in your midst A meek and humble people, And they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

New Living Translation
Those who are left will be the lowly and humble, for it is they who trust in the name of the Lord .

New Life Bible
But I will leave among you people who are not proud, and they will be safe in the name of the Lord.

New Revised Standard
For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord —

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So will I leave remaining in thy midst, a people oppressed and poor, - who will seek refuge in the name of Yahweh:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will leave in the midst of thee a poor and needy people: and they shall hope in the name of the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,

Young's Literal Translation
And I have left in thy midst a people humble and poor, And they have trusted in the name of Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the also wil I leaue a smal poore symple people, which shal trust in the name of the LORDE.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Therefore wait upon me, saith the Lord, until the day when I rise up for a witness: because my judgment shall be on the gatherings of the nations, to draw to me kings, to pour out upon them all my fierce anger: for the whole earth shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy. ⁹ For then will I turn to the peoples a tongue for her generation, that all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve him under one yoke. ¹⁰ From the boundaries of the rivers of Ethiopia will I receive my dispersed ones; they shall offer sacrifices to me. ¹¹ In that day thou shalt not be ashamed of all thy practices, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then will I take away from thee thy disdainful pride, and thou shalt no more magnify thyself upon my holy mountain. ¹² And I will leave in thee a meek and lowly people; ¹³ and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

leave: Isaiah 14:32, Isaiah 61:1-3, Zechariah 11:11, Zechariah 13:8, Zechariah 13:9, Matthew 5:3, Matthew 11:5, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:28, James 2:5

and: Psalms 37:40, Isaiah 50:10, Nahum 1:7, Matthew 12:21, Romans 15:12, Ephesians 1:12, Ephesians 1:13, 1 Peter 1:21

Reciprocal: Psalms 74:19 - forget Psalms 130:7 - Let Israel Proverbs 13:8 - the poor Isaiah 25:4 - thou hast Isaiah 29:19 - the poor Isaiah 30:17 - till ye Zechariah 11:7 - General Luke 4:18 - to preach Luke 6:20 - Blessed Luke 7:22 - to Romans 11:26 - all 1 Corinthians 1:26 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let us make for him a help suitable to him.

Genesis 2:20
And Adam gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild beasts of the field, but for Adam there was not found a help like to himself.

Genesis 2:22
And God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.

Genesis 3:13
And Adam said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate.

Genesis 3:15
And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.

Genesis 3:20
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.

Genesis 3:21
And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:24
So the Lord God sent him forth out of the garden of Delight to cultivate the ground out of which he was taken.

Job 31:33
or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;

Proverbs 19:3
The folly of a man spoils his ways: and he blames God in his heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people,.... Of a character just the reverse of the proud and haughty, that should be removed from Jerusalem and Judea by death or captivity; these are they that should be preserved from the general calamity, as the Christians were, and were left in the church of God: these were an "afflicted" people, as the Lord's people in all ages are afflicted with a body of sin; with the temptations of Satan; with the hidings of God's face; with bodily infirmities, and with the reproaches and persecutions of men; the first Christians, both among Jews and Gentiles, justly bore this character, especially with respect to the last article: and they were also "poor", for the most part the poor of this world, being stripped of their worldly enjoyments for the sake of Christ; but especially poor in spirit, broken hearted, contrite, lowly ones; that had a mean opinion of themselves, modest, meek, and humble; sensible of their spiritual poverty, and seeking after the true riches of grace and glory. The Targum renders it,

"a meek people, and receiving injuries;''

quietly and patiently:

and they shall trust in the name of the Lord; not in men, but in the Lord; not in descent from men, from the patriarchs, as the Jews were wont to do; not in Moses, as they, in his law, and obedience to it; not in any creature or creature enjoyment; not in wealth and riches: nor in their own hearts, or in their own righteousness; but in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; in his person for acceptance with God; in his righteousness for justification; in his blood for pardon and cleansing; in his sacrifice for atonement; in his fulness for supplies of grace; in his power and strength for protection and preservation; and in his obedience, sufferings, and death, for salvation and eternal life. This trust signifies, according to the sense of the word n, a betaking of themselves to Christ as a refuge; a hiding themselves under the shadow of his wings; under his person, blood, and righteousness, where they are covered and sheltered from the avenging justice of God; from the curses of the law, and wrath to come: it is a committing themselves into the hands of Christ; a leaning and staying upon him, expecting grace and glory from him; trusting him with all they have, and for all they want in time and eternity: and this the chosen, redeemed, and called ones, "shall do"; for, through the efficacious grace of God, faith is given to them, and wrought in them; and this is drawn forth into act and exercise by the same grace, and is continued in them, and shall never fail, through the powerful intercession of Christ for them; they shall believe, and go on believing, to the saving of their souls.

n חסו "se recipient", Junius Tremellius, Drusius, Burkius "confugient", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will also leave - (Over, as a remnant, it is still the same heavy prophecy, that a remnant only ‘shall be saved’) “an afflicted and poor people.” priests, (except that ‘great company who were obedient to the faith’) Acts 6:7, scribes, lawyers, Pharisees, Sadducees were taken away; and there remained “the people of the land” , the “unlearned and ignorant” Acts 4:13, “the weak things of the world and the things despised” 1 Corinthians 1:27-28 who bore the very title of their Master, “the poor and needy; poor in Spirit” Psalms 41:1; poor also in outward things, since “they who had lands, sold them and they had all things common” Acts 2:44-45; Acts 4:32, Acts 4:35. They were afflicted above measure outwardly in the (Acts 8:1; Acts 9:2, Acts 9:13-14; Acts 12:1-2; Acts 13:50; Acts 14:5, Acts 14:22; Acts 22:0; etc. Romans 8:17, Romans 8:35-36; Romans 12:14; 1Co 9:19; 2 Corinthians 1:8-9; 2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Timothy 3:11-12; Hebrews 10:32-34; James 2:6-7; 1Pe 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:13; Revelation 1:9; Revelation 6:9 etc.) persecutions, “reproaches, spoiling of” their “goods,” stripes, deaths, which they endured for Christ’s sake.

They knew too their own poverty, Rup: “knowing themselves to be sinners, and that they were justified only by faith in Jesus Christ.” When the rest were cast out “of the midst of her,” these should be left “in the midst of her” (the words stand in contrast with one another) in the bosom of the Church. “And they shall trust in the name of the Lord.” “As they looked to be justified only in the Name of Christ,” and (Dionysius) “trusted in the grace and power of God alone, not in any power or wisdom or eloquence or riches of this world, they converted the world to a faith above nature.” Cyril: “Conformed in this too to Christ. Who for our sakes became poor and almost neglected both His divine glory and the supereminence of His nature, to subject Himself to the condition of a servant. So then those instructed in His laws after His example, think humbly of themselves, They became most exceedingly loved of God, and chiefly the divine disciples, who were set as lights of the world.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zephaniah 3:12. An afflicted and poor people — In such a state will the Jews be found when they shall hear the universal call, and believe in Christ Jesus. Indeed, this is the general state of the Jews in the present day; except a few that are called Jews, who are very rich; and who believe just as much in the God of Jacob, as they do in Jesus Christ.