The image of God in Sf 3,14-17 is an image of joy for the salvation of the redeemed people. God`s delight comes manifested after a threat of total destruction of the creation. The present dissertation aims at verifying in full detail if the joy exhortation driven to the people by the prophet as well as the manifestation of God s joy have coherence with the remaining Zephaniah`s book. This study is based on our research on works of several scholars in the last 30 years. It has great relevance once it brings God s dense message of justice and generous love. The development of the present research is based on the application of a diachronous approach (chapter 2) and a synchronous one (chapter 4) in order to provide an acceptable critical basis on the pericope in study. It begins with the translation of the text, followed by the delimitation, dating and its organization. Then an exegetic analysis on formal, redactional and theological aspects is done. It continues with the verification of the terminological, thematic and theological correspondences among the text and the remaining of the book. This study reaches the conclusion that the pericope Sf 3,14-17 reveals contact points with the precedent chapters of the Zephaniah`s book. It also shows the passage from a judgmental process (cf. Sf 1,2-3,8) to a salvation process of those converts. Therefore, the exteriorization of the joy of God is justified.