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Zephaniah 3:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

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But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.

Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.

Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.

And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.

For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.

As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:




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