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NASB | Zephaniah 2:3 Seek the LORD, All you humble of the earth Who have carried out His ordinances; Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of the LORD'S anger. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Zephaniah 2:3 Seek the LORD [search diligently for Him and regard Him as the foremost necessity of your life], All you humble of the land Who have practiced His ordinances and have kept His commandments; Seek righteousness, seek humility [regard them as vital]. Perhaps you will be hidden [and pardoned and rescued] In the day of the LORD'S anger. |
Bible Question: I am doing a reasearch paper on The Beatitudes(Matthew5:3-11) for a New Testament Class in school. I need to find out if there are references to other passages in the Bible that would be helpful to analyzing this passage? |
Bible Answer: "Footnotes 1 [5:1-7:29] The first of the five discourses that are a central part of the structure of this gospel. It is the discourse section of the first book ... The Lucan parallel is in that gospel's "Sermon on the Plain" (Luke 6:20-49), although some of the sayings in Matthew's "Sermon on the Mount" have their parallels in other parts of Luke. The careful topical arrangement of the sermon is probably not due only to Matthew's editing; he seems to have had a structured discourse of Jesus as one of his sources. The form of that source may have been as follows: four beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-4, 6, 11-12), a section on the new righteousness with illustrations (Matthew 5:17, 20-24, 27-28, 33-48), a section on good works (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18), and three warnings (Matthew 7:1-2, 15-21, 24-27). 2 [1-2] Unlike Luke's sermon, this is addressed not only to the disciples but to the crowds (see Matthew 7:28). 3 [3-12] The form Blessed are (is) occurs frequently in the Old Testament in the Wisdom literature and in the psalms. Although modified by Matthew, the first, second, fourth, and ninth beatitudes have Lucan parallels (Matthew 5:3; Luke 6:20; Matthew 5:4; Luke 6:21, 22; Matthew 5:6; Luke 6:21a; Matthew 5:11-12; Luke 5:22-23). The others were added by the evangelist and are probably his own composition. A few manuscripts, Western and Alexandrian, and many versions and patristic quotations give the second and third beatitudes in inverted order. 4 [3] The poor in spirit: in the Old Testament, the poor (anawim) are those who are without material possessions and whose confidence is in God (see Isaiah 61:1; Zephaniah 2:3; in the NAB the word is translated lowly and humble, respectively, in those texts). Matthew added in spirit in order either to indicate that only the devout poor were meant or to extend the beatitude to all, of whatever social rank, who recognized their complete dependence on God. The same phrase poor in spirit is found in the Qumran literature (1QM 14:7). 5 [4] Cf Isaiah 61:2 "(The Lord has sent me) . . . to comfort all who mourn." They will be comforted: here the passive is a "theological passive" equivalent to the active "God will comfort them"; so also in Matthew 5:6, 7. 6 [5] Cf Psalm 37:11,". . . the meek shall possess the land." In the psalm "the land" means the land of Palestine; here it means the kingdom. 7 [6] For righteousness: a Matthean addition. For the meaning of righteousness here, see the note on Matthew 3:14-15. 8 [8] Cf Psalm 24:4. Only one "whose heart is clean" can take part in the temple worship. To be with God in the temple is described in Psalm 42:2 as "beholding his face," but here the promise to the clean of heart is that they will see God not in the temple but in the coming kingdom." Footnotes on Matt 5:1-11 in the NAB http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/matthew/matthew5.htm |
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