Zephaniah 3:1
This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how is she become desolate, a habitation of wild beasts! every one that passes through her shall hiss, and shake his hands. Alas the glorious and ransomed city.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 1:16And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it forth by the altar toward the east to the place of the ashes.
Isaiah 30:12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you⌃ have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because you have murmured, and been confident in this respect:
Isaiah 59:13We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.
Jeremiah 6:7As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.
Ezekiel 22:7In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.
Ezekiel 23:30brought this upon you, in that you went a-whoring after the nations, and did defile yourself with their devices.
Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 3:1
We now return to Jerusalem, and must again hear what God has to say to her, I. By way of reproof and threatening, for the abundance of wickedness that was found in her, of which divers instances are given, with the aggravations of them, ver. 1-7 . II. By way of promise of mercy and grace, which God had yet in reserve for them. Two general heads of promises here are:—1. That God would bring in a glorious work of reformation among them, cleanse them from their sins, and bring them home to himself; many promises of… Read the whole commentary →