Zephaniah 3:3

Catholic Public Domain Version

Her leaders are in her midst like roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing for the morning.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:15

An impious leader over a poor people is like a roaring lion and a hungry bear.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow's case is not brought before them.

Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring is like the lion; they will roar like young lions. They will both roar and seize their prey. And they will wrap themselves around it, and there will be no one who can rescue it.

Jeremiah 22:17

Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds.

Jeremiah 23:11

"For both the prophet and the priest have become polluted, and I have found their wickedness within my own house, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 34:19

the leaders of Judah, and the leaders of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests, and all the people of the land, who have passed between the parts of the calf.

Jeremiah 5:6

For this reason, a lion from the forest has struck them down, a wolf toward evening has laid waste to them, a leopard lies in wait over their cities. All who go out from there will be taken. For their transgressions have been multiplied; their rebellions have been strengthened.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the leaders of Israel have each used his arm to shed blood within you.

Ezekiel 33:26

You stood by your swords, you committed abominations, and each one has defiled his neighbor's wife. And will you possess the land as an inheritance?

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are more nimble than leopards and swifter than wolves in the evening; their horsemen will spread out. And then their horsemen will approach from far away; they will fly like the eagle, hurrying to devour.