Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Sofonias 3:1

We may also approach this verse from a different perspective. Zohar Chadash on Noach discussing Genesis 8,8, states in the name of Rabbi Eliezer that if the leaders of one synagogue or one entire congregation were to become true penitents the Messiah would arrive immediately. Accordingly we must understand the word אביון as anyone who yearns for אחד שעריך, "one of your congregations" becoming true penitents. When this happens the "destitute" Messiah will be able to fulfil his desire to arrive joyfully. The Torah writes בארצך "in your land," in order to define the place the Messiah yearns for "the land which the Lord your G'd is about to give you." He is anxious to find out when תפקוד העיר היונה חמדת הלבבות, "the city of the dove will be redeemed," the city to which all hearts aspire (compare Tzefaniah 3,1). G'd commands all of Israel לא תאמץ את לבבך ולא תקפץ את אחיך האביון "not to be stubborn but to do everything to help your brother, the destitute one," i.e. the Messiah to realise his ambition. The single most potent מצוה which will hasten the arrival of the Messiah is charity as we have been taught in Isaiah 54,14: בצדקה תכונני, "you shall be established through righteousness." The paragraph concludes with the words מאחיך האביון, "from your brother who is destitute," referring to the cause of why your brother the Messiah is destitute, unable to realise his mission.

its crop The meaning of this word is known, and it is related to “Woe to the filthy” [Zephaniah 3:1]

דראון Abhorring. According to some, it is composed of two words, די דאון much abhorring; as to דאון, comp. מוראה filthy (Zeph. 3:1); but this explanation is not admissible because of לדראון (Dan. 12:2).⁴⁶I. E. fails to prove why it should be more difficult to explain דראון in Daniel as equivalent to די ראון, than the same word used here by Isaiah. In his commentary on Daniel he only states that the word is not a compound, but the statement is not supported by any argument. The remark is perhaps based on the change of the Zere in דֵּרָאוֹן into Hirek in the construct state ,דִּרְאוֹן, since דֵּי═דֵ is the form of the construct state, and is not affected any further by the construct state of the succeeding word.