Yehudah gathered themselves together, to seek [help] of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Yehudah they came to seek the LORD.
Zephaniah 2:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition COLLECT YOUR thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves [in submission and see if there is no sense of shame and no consciousness of sin left in you], O shameless nation [not desirous or desired]! American Standard Version (1901) Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation that hath no shame; Common English Bible Gather together and assemble yourselves, shameless nation, Catholic Public Domain Version Assemble, be gathered together, O people not worthy to be loved. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not worthy to be loved: |
Yehudah gathered themselves together, to seek [help] of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Yehudah they came to seek the LORD.
All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the scroll of the Torah of Moshe, which the LORD had commanded to Yisra'el.
Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Yisra'el were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.
*Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.*
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, 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.
Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD.
The LORD, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, but the unjust know no shame.
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.*