Zephaniah 2:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired;

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 20:4 : 4 And Judah gathered together to seek help from the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
  • Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
  • Jer 6:15 : 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 12:7-9 : 7 I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies. 8 My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; it cries out against Me; therefore I have hated it. 9 My heritage is to Me like a speckled bird; the birds all around are against her. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
  • Joel 2:12-18 : 12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil. 14 Who knows if he will turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those who nurse at the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her room. 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God? 18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 I also cut off three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
  • Matt 18:20 : 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.
  • Neh 8:1 : 1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one person in the street before the Water Gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
  • Neh 9:1 : 1 On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the children of Israel gathered with fasting and wearing sackcloth, and with earth upon them.
  • Esth 4:16 : 16 "Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."
  • Isa 1:4-6 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward. 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.
  • Isa 1:10-15 : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 26:8-9 : 8 Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You. 9 With my soul I have desired You in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Zeph 2:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2Before the decree comes forth, before the day passes like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.

    3Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have carried out His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hidden in the day of the LORD'S anger.

  • Joel 3:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.

    12Let the nations be stirred up, and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

  • Joel 1:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

    15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

  • 17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • 18I will gather those who are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of you, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

  • 8Therefore wait for me, says the LORD, until the day that I rise up for the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

  • 18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

  • Joel 2:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming, for it is near at hand;

    2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spreads upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has never been anything like it, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

  • 12I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of people.

  • 72%

    19Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

    20As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

    21Yes, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.

  • 6For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

  • Joel 2:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.

    16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those who nurse at the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her room.

    17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • 8The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gather others to him, besides those that are gathered to him.

  • Mic 4:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

    12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.

  • 12And he shall set up a sign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

  • 1Come near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.

  • 18Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

  • 14And it will be as the hunted roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: every man will turn to his own people, and everyone will flee to his own land.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry out there bitterly.

    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

  • 18Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles shall dwell in the dust: your people are scattered upon the mountains, and no one gathers them.

  • 15Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, neither understand what they say.

  • 10Arise and depart, for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a severe destruction.

  • 20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

  • 6In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble the lame, and I will gather the outcast, and her whom I have afflicted;

  • 8For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • 29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

  • 2I will gather all nations and will bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided my land.

  • 6Do not prophesy, they say to those who prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they may not take shame.

  • 3For out of the north a nation comes against her, which shall make her land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein: they shall move away, they shall depart, both man and beast.

  • 12Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be very desolate, says the LORD.

  • 9Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and listen, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.

  • 17Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

  • 20Come, my people, enter your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

  • 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

  • 1Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that seek counsel, but not from me; and that make a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

  • 10Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the distant isles, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

  • 5Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

  • 16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.

  • 6And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.

  • 9Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in its midst, and the oppressed within it.