Zep 3:17, Mal 3:12, Rev 21:9 | JFB | STEP | 17. he will rest in his love —content with it as His supreme delight (compare ) [CALVIN ], ( ). Or, He shall be silent, namely as to thy faults, not imputing them to thee [MAURER ] ( ). I prefer explaining it of that calm silent joy in the possession of the object of one's love, too great for words to express: just as God after the six days of creation rested with silent satisfaction in His work, for "behold it was very good" ( ). So the parallel clause by contrast expresses the joy, not kept silent as this, but uttered in "singing."

Zephaniah 3:17

17. he will rest in his love—content with it as His supreme delight (compare Lu 15:7, 10) [CALVIN], (Isa 62:5; 65:19). Or, He shall be silent, namely as to thy faults, not imputing them to thee [MAURER] (Ps 32:2; Eze 33:16). I prefer explaining it of that calm silent joy in the possession of the object of one's love, too great for words to express: just as God after the six days of creation rested with silent satisfaction in His work, for "behold it was very good" (Ge 1:31; 2:2). So the parallel clause by contrast expresses the joy, not kept silent as this, but uttered in "singing."

Malachi 3:12

12. Fulfilling the blessing (De 33:29; Zec 8:13).

delightsome land— (Da 8:9).

Revelation of John 21:9

9. The same angel who had shown John Babylon the harlot, is appropriately employed to show him in contrast new Jerusalem, the Bride (Re 17:1-5). The angel so employed is the one that had the last seven plagues, to show that the ultimate blessedness of the Church is one end of the divine judgments on her foes.

unto me—A, B, and Vulgate omit.

the Lamb's wife—in contrast to her who sat on many waters (Re 17:1), (that is, intrigued with many peoples and nations of the world, instead of giving her undivided affections, as the Bride does, to the Lamb.