Zephaniah 3:3

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw bones for the morning.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:15

The wicked ruler is a roaring lion and a ranging bear over a poor people.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebelling and are companions of thieves. Everyone loves a present, and is pursuing bribes. They do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 5:29

Its roaring shall be like a lion; they shall roar like young lions. Yea, they roar and seize the prey and bring it away safely; and not one shall deliver.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart lust for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and injury, and to do oppression.

Jeremiah 23:11

For both prophet and priest are being defiled; yea, I have found their evil in My house, a statement of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 34:19

the rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf;

Jeremiah 5:6

On account of this a lion out of the forest shall strike them; a wolf of the desert shall destroy them; a leopard is watching over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn, because their transgressions are many; their apostasies are numerous.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order to pour out blood.

Ezekiel 33:26

You stand on your sword, and you each man do disgusting things, defiling his neighbor’s wife, and shall you possess the land?

Habakkuk 1:8

And his horses are swifter than leopards and are fiercer than the evening wolves. And their horsemen spread themselves; yea, their horsemen come from afar; they shall fly as the eagle hurrying to eat.