Zephaniah 3:2 · KJV
“She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. {correction: or, instruction}”
— Zephaniah 3:2
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! {her...: or, gluttonous: Heb. craw}
Her princes within her {are} roaring lions; her judges {are} evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Zephaniah 3 — Context
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! {her...: or, gluttonous: Heb. craw}
2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. {correction: or, instruction}
3Her princes within her {are} roaring lions; her judges {are} evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
4Her prophets {are} light {and} treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, {are} not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, {but} they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah 22:21
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; {but} thou saidst, I will not hear. This {hath been} thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. {prosperity: Heb. prosperities}
Psalms 78:22
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Psalms 73:28
But {it is} good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
Jeremiah 7:23-28
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Isaiah 43:22
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
Isaiah 29:13
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near {me} with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Psalms 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek {after God}: God {is} not in all his thoughts. {God is...: or, all his thoughts are, There is no God}