Zephaniah 3:1

Modern English Version

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city.

Cross References

Jeremiah 6:6

For thus says the Lord of Hosts: Hew down trees and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them,

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Zechariah 7:10

Do not oppress the widow, orphan, sojourner, or poor. And let none of you contemplate evil deeds in your hearts against his brother.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them. They defraud a man of his house, and a fellow man of his inheritance.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are intent only on your covetousness and on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and violence.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Leviticus 1:16

He shall remove its entrails with its feathers and throw it to the east side of the altar to the place of the ashes.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

Amos 3:9

Proclaim to the fortresses in Ashdod, and the fortresses in the land of Egypt, and say: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great disorders within her, and the oppression in her midst.”

Ezekiel 23:30

I will do these things to you because you have gone whoring after the nations, because you have polluted yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

Jeremiah 5:23

But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone aside.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and an act of violence is in their hands.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness. Violence and devastation are heard in her; before Me continually are grief and wounds.