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Zephaniah 3:5

The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning does he bring his judgment to light, he fails not; but the unjust knows no shame.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

In Context

4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

6I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:14For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up yours enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

Job 8:3Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?

Job 34:17Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?

Psalms 99:3Let them praise your great and terrible name; for it is holy.

Ecclesiastes 3:16And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Isaiah 28:19From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 3:2-8

The Depravity of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 612.) 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. 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. 5 The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will… Read the whole commentary →

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