What is the context?
The promised turn concerns calling on the Lord and serving Him together. Pure lips describe worship renewed from the mixed allegiance and lies already exposed.
The horizon reaches worshippers beyond Cush’s rivers and scattered people bringing an offering. The Lord’s gathering is not limited by the hearers’ immediate geography.
Pride is removed, while a meek remnant trusts in His name and ceases from deceit. Their safety is pictured as a flock feeding and resting without fear.
The promise is more than a change of vocabulary. A renewed people’s truthful speech and humble life belong together.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley reads pure language through pure worship flowing from a pure heart and the dispersed through a praying remnant. That reading does not require every people to abandon its ordinary language for one modern sacred tongue.
Where does this fit in God's plan?
Revelation 14:1–5 pictures people belonging to the Lamb with no lie found in their mouths. This is a close purity-and-truthfulness parallel within Christian redemption, not a formal quotation of Zephaniah or an equation of every numerical detail with the remnant described here.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.