Zephaniah 3:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Her prophets are senseless men without faith: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have acted unjustly against the law.

Cross References

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have despised my law and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane, nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean, and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths: and I was profaned in the midst of them.

Malachi 2:8

But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Hosea 9:7

The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Lamentations 2:14

Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things. What then shall be done in the end thereof?

Isaiah 9:15

The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet, who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast, and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire, burning with brimstone.

1 John 4:1

Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

Matthew 7:15

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Micah 2:11

Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord, and tell them and cause my people to err by their lying and by their wonders: when I sent them not nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully.

1 Samuel 2:22

Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle.

Judges 9:4

And they gave him seventy weight of silver out of the temple of Baalberith: wherewith he hired to himself men that were needy, and vagabonds, and they followed him.

Jeremiah 34:19

The princes of Juda and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land that passed between the parts of the calf.

Ezekiel 44:23

And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.

Malachi 1:6

The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the princes of Israel: every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

Micah 3:11

Her princes have judged for bribes, and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.