This study considers Zephaniah’s hermeneutic in approaching his preliminary canon and how later authors employed Zephaniah’s message. I first evaluate some Old Testament allusions, considering how Zephaniah parallels the coming fires of judgment to the waters of judgment at the flood, how he portrays the day of the Lord as a new conquest to claim a global promised land, and how he views the future ingathering of international worshipers as a reversal of the Tower of Babel judgment. Next, I consider the prophet’s hermeneutical and theological strategy, highlighting his use of typology, redemptive-historical reversal, and event as blueprint. Finally, I reflect on the use of Zephaniah in the Old and New Testaments, which draw from his portrayal of God’s eschatological ingathering to punish and save and treat Christ’s death and resurrection and the birth of the church as inaugurating the day of the Lord as Zephaniah envisioned it.