1. Zephaniah 3:13 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about the final “they” in the verse?

Zephaniah 3:13 (ESV)

13 those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”

The pronoun they is separate from the verb in the original, which is not the norm. Its presence makes the word extremely emphatic: it is they who… The pronoun includes the Gentiles of Zephaniah 3:9–10 and the remnant of Zephaniah 3:11–13.1