“I will remove disaster
From you,
So that you will not bear
Reproach for it.
I will deal
With all your oppressors
At that time.
I will save the lame.
I will gather the outcast.
I will change their shame
Into praise.
I will make them
Renown in all the earth.”
Yahweh, via Zephaniah, would remove all the disasters from the Israelites. They would not have to bear any reproach. Yahweh was going to deal with all their oppressors. He was going to save the lame and gather the outcasts, so that their shame would be turned to praise. The Israelites would be known throughout the whole world.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 