Zephaniah 3:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Too bad for that disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city!

Cross References

Isaiah 30:12

Now this is the answer of the holy God of Israel: “You rejected my message, and you trust in violence and lies.

Isaiah 5:7

I am the LORD All-Powerful! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.

Isaiah 59:13

We have rebelled and refused to follow you. Our hearts were deceitful, and so we lied; we planned to abuse others and turn our backs on you.

Isaiah 59:6

but you can't make clothes with those webs or hide behind them. You're sinful and brutal.

Jeremiah 22:17

But all you think about is how to cheat or abuse or murder some innocent victim.

Jeremiah 5:23

You stubborn people have rebelled and turned your backs on me.

Jeremiah 6:6

I am the LORD All-Powerful, and I will command these armies to chop down trees and build a ramp up to the walls of Jerusalem. People of Jerusalem, I must punish you for your injustice.

Jeremiah 6:7

Evil pours from your city like water from a spring. Sounds of violent crimes echo within your walls; victims are everywhere, wounded and dying.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people themselves cheat and rob; they abuse the poor and take advantage of foreigners.

Ezekiel 22:7

None of you honour your parents, and you cheat foreigners, orphans, and widows.

Ezekiel 23:30

have led to this. You were the one determined to have sex with men from other nations and to worship their idols.

Leviticus 1:16

remove the bird's craw with what is in it, and throw them on the ash heap at the east side of the altar.

Amos 3:9

Here is a message for the leaders of Philistia and Egypt— tell everyone to come together on the hills of Samaria. Let them see the injustice and the lawlessness in that city.

Amos 4:1

You women of Samaria are fat cows! You ill-treat and abuse the poor and needy, then you say to your husbands, “Bring us more drinks!”

Micah 2:2

You grab any field or house that you want; you cheat families out of homes and land.

Zechariah 7:10

Don't ill-treat widows or orphans or foreigners or anyone who is poor, and stop making plans to hurt each other.”

Malachi 3:5

The LORD All-Powerful said: I'm now on my way to judge you. And I will quickly condemn all who practise witchcraft or cheat in marriage or tell lies in court or rob workers of their pay or ill-treat widows and orphans or steal the property of foreigners or refuse to respect me.