Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
- KJV
- Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
- WEB
- Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
- ASV
- Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
- DARBY
- Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!
- BLB
- Woe [to] her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
- ÅB
- Ve den gjenstridige og urene, staden som er full av vold!
- OTB
- Ve den opprørske og urene,
Den undertrykkende byen! - B1930
- Ve den gjenstridige og urene, staden som er full av vold!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 6:6
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Read in contextIsaiah 59:13
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Read in contextMalachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Read in contextZechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:7
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Read in contextJeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Read in contextMicah 2:2
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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