Zephaniah 3:9 Cross References

Zephaniah 3:9

9: "On that day I will purify the lips of all people, so that everyone will be able to worship the LORD together.

In that day five of Egypt's cities will follow the LORD Almighty. They will even begin to speak the Hebrew language. One of these will be Heliopolis, the City of the Sun.

The whole earth will acknowledge the LORD and return to him. People from every nation will bow down before him.

For the time will come when all the earth will be filled, as the waters fill the sea, with an awareness of the glory of the LORD.

Many nations will join themselves to the LORD on that day, and they, too, will be my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the LORD Almighty sent me to you.

"This is what the LORD Almighty says: People from nations and cities around the world will travel to Jerusalem.
The people of one city will say to the people in another, `Let us go to Jerusalem to ask the LORD to bless us and to seek the LORD Almighty. We are planning to go ourselves.'
People from many nations, even powerful nations, will come to Jerusalem to seek the LORD Almighty and to ask the LORD to bless them.
"This is what the LORD Almighty says: In those days ten people from nations and languages around the world will clutch at the hem of one Jew's robe. And they will say, `Please let us walk with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.
Godly Jews from many nations were living in Jerusalem at that time.
When they heard this sound, they came running to see what it was all about, and they were bewildered to hear their own languages being spoken by the believers.
They were beside themselves with wonder. "How can this be?" they exclaimed. "These people are all from Galilee,
and yet we hear them speaking the languages of the lands where we were born!

All the nations--and you made each one--will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your great and holy name.
For you are great and perform great miracles. You alone are God.

Then all of you can join together with one voice, giving praise and glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So accept each other just as Christ has accepted you; then God will be glorified.
Remember that Christ came as a servant to the Jews to show that God is true to the promises he made to their ancestors.
And he came so the Gentiles might also give glory to God for his mercies to them. That is what the psalmist meant when he wrote: "I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing praises to your name."
And in another place it is written, "Rejoice, O you Gentiles, along with his people, the Jews."

And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day there will be one LORD--his name alone will be worshiped.

"And when foreigners hear of you and come from distant lands to worship your great name--
for they will hear of you and of your mighty miracles and your power--and when they pray toward this Temple,
then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. Then all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built bears your name.

The LORD will terrify them as he destroys all the gods in the land. Then people from nations around the world will worship the LORD, each in their own land.

LORD, you are my strength and fortress, my refuge in the day of trouble! Nations from around the world will come to you and say, "Our ancestors were foolish, for they worshiped worthless idols.

Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

A good person produces good words from a good heart, and an evil person produces evil words from an evil heart.

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices shouting in heaven: "The whole world has now become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever."

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