Zephaniah 3:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

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.

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 30:12

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

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.

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.”

Ezekiel 22:7

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

Micah 2:2

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

Jeremiah 22:17

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

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.

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 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!”

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.

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.

Ezekiel 22:29

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

Jeremiah 5:23

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

Isaiah 59:6

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

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.