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Zephaniah 3:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

She has not obeyed; she has not accepted discipline. She has not trusted  in the Lord; she has not drawn near to her God.

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I spoke to you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way since youth; indeed, you have never listened to me.


Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.


They have turned their backs to me and not their faces.  Though I taught them time and time again,  , they do not listen and receive discipline.


I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.


‘But, Jacob, you have not called on me, because, Israel, you have become weary of me.


The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honour me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.


and you will say, ‘How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.


But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.


let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.


Because of the depravity of your uncleanness – since I tried to purify you, but you would not be purified from your uncleanness – you will not be pure again until I have satisfied my wrath on you.


Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring on Judah and on all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them because I have spoken to them, but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them, but they did not answer.” ’


‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Go, say to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, “Will you not accept discipline  by listening to my words? #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.


Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who depend on horses! They trust in the abundance of chariots and in the large number of horsemen. They do not look  to the Holy One of Israel, and they do not seek the  Lord.


Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick.


The fear of the  Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.


All Scripture is inspired by God  , and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,


This is your lot, what I have decreed for you – this is the  Lord’s declaration – because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.


‘Son of man, say to her, “You are a land that has not been cleansed,  that has not received rain in the day of indignation.”


Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have consumed Israel with open mouths. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


and those who turn back from following the  Lord, who do not seek the  Lord or enquire of him.





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