Zephaniah 3:17  The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.

I love that image. God's delight in you is so overwhelming, that the Mighty Warrior finds himself singing for joy! His is a multifaceted emotional response that gets expressed in very physical ways. Notice that we are dealing with "great delight" in this context. As Justin Rossow puts it: "we're actually getting a Hebraic 'buy one, get one free' deal, where you double down on vocabulary words to express the strength of the concept."

This is a joyful delight so strong that even the Mighty Warrior has to jump up, spin around, and start singing!

That's what God thinks of you!
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