Zephaniah 2:1
Good News Translation
Shameless nation, come to your senses

New Revised Standard Version
Gather together, gather, O shameless nation,

Contemporary English Version
You disgraceful nation, gather around,

New American Bible
Gather, gather yourselves together, O nation without shame!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not worthy to be loved:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not worthy to be loved:

gather together.

2 Chronicles 20:4 And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all came out of their cities to make supplication to him.

Nehemiah 8:1 And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

Nehemiah 9:1 And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

Esther 4:16 Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.

Joel 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:

Joel 2:12-18 Now, therefore, saith the Lord. Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and mourning. . . .

Matthew 18:20 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

O nation.

Isaiah 1:4-6,10-15 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards. . . .

Jeremiah 12:7-9 I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the hand of her enemies. . . .

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

desired.

Isaiah 26:8,9 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul. . . .

Context
A Call to Repentance
1Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not worthy to be loved:2Before the decree bring forth the day as dust passing away, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord's indignation come upon you.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:4
And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all came out of their cities to make supplication to him.

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.

Jeremiah 6:15
They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.

Joel 1:14
Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God: and cry ye to the Lord:

Zephaniah 3:5
The just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: in the morning, in the morning he will bring his judgment to light, and it shall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known shame.

Zephaniah 1:18
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