Zephaniah 3:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ “I have said, ‘Only fear Me, accept instruction.’ And her dwelling would not be cut off, all that I have appointed for her. But they rose up early, they corrupted all their deeds.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ I said, Only let her [reverently and worshipfully] fear Me, receive correction and instruction, and [Jerusalem's] dwelling shall not be cut off. However, I have punished her [according to all that I have appointed concerning her in the way of punishment], but all the more they are eager to make all their doings corrupt and infamous.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ I said, Only fear thou me; receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

Common English Bible

⁷ I said, “Surely, she will fear me; she will take instruction so that her habitation won’t be cut off because of everything I did to her.” However, they rose early to corrupt their deeds.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ I said: Nevertheless, you will fear me; you will accept discipline. And her dwelling place will not perish, despite all the things about which I have visited her. Yet truly, they arose with the dawn and corrupted all their thoughts.

Zephaniah 3:7 Cross References

Genesis 6:12

And Elohim looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt – for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth –

2 Chronicles 33:11

Therefore יהוה brought upon them the commanders of the army of the sovereign of Ashshur, who captured Menashsheh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and made him go to Baḇel.

Job 36:10

And He opens their ear for discipline, and commands that they turn back from wickedness.

Psalm 32:8

“Let Me instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; Let Me counsel, My eye be on you.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to counsel and accept discipline, So that you are wise in your latter end.

Isaiah 5:4

“What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?

Isaiah 63:8

And He said, “They are My people, children who do not act falsely.” And He became their Saviour.

Jeremiah 17:23

“But they did not obey, or incline their ear, and they made their neck stiff not to hear and not to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 25:5

saying, ‘Turn back now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the soil which יהוה has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

Jeremiah 36:3

“It could be that the house of Yehuḏah hears of all the evil which I plan to bring upon them, so that each one turns back from his evil way, and I shall pardon their crookedness and their sin.”

Jeremiah 38:17

And Yirmeyahu said to Tsiḏqiyahu, “Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘If you do indeed surrender to the heads of the sovereign of Baḇel, then your being shall live, and this city not be burned with fire. And you and your house shall live.

Jeremiah 6:8

“Be instructed, O Yerushalayim, lest My being be torn from you, lest I make you a waste, a land not inhabited.”

Jeremiah 7:7

then I shall let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

Jeremiah 8:6

“I have listened and heard – they do not speak right. No man has repented of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ They all turned to their own course, like a horse rushing into battle.

Hosea 9:9

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gib‛ah. He remembers their crookedness, He punishes their sins.

Zephaniah 3:2

She did not obey the voice, she did not accept instruction, she did not trust in יהוה, she did not draw near to her Elohim.

Deuteronomy 4:16

lest you should do corruptly and shall make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure – the likeness of male or female,

1 Timothy 1:5

Now the goal of this command is love from a clean heart, from a good conscience and a sincere belief,

2 Peter 3:9

יהוה is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.