Zephaniah 3:1 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹ Woe to her that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ WOE TO her that is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city [Jerusalem]!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!

Common English Bible

¹ Doom, obstinate one, the defiled one, the violent city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Woe to the provocatrix and the redeemed city, the dove.

Zephaniah 3:1 Cross References

Jeremiah 6:6

For thus says the Lord of hosts: “Hew down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them;

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 7:10

do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.”

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Jeremiah 22:17

But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

Leviticus 1:16

and he shall take away its crop with the feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes;

Amos 4:1

“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’

Amos 3:9

Proclaim to the strongholds in Assyria, and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressions in her midst.”

Ezekiel 23:30

have brought this upon you, because you played the harlot with the nations, and polluted yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without redress.

Jeremiah 5:23

But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.