Zephaniah 3:3

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Princes thereof in middle thereof were as lions roaring; judges thereof were wolves, in the eventide they left not into morrow.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:15

A roaring lion, and an hungry bear, is a wicked prince on a poor people.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes be unfaithful, the fellows of thieves; all love gifts, and follow yieldings, either meeds; they deem not to a fatherless child, and the cause of a widow entereth not to them.

Isaiah 5:29

His roaring shall be as of a lion; he shall roar as the whelps of lions; and he shall gnash, and shall hold prey, and shall embrace, and none shall be, that shall deliver.

Jeremiah 22:17

Forsooth thine eyes and heart be to avarice, and to shed innocent blood, and to false challenge, and to the performing of evil work.

Jeremiah 23:11

For why the prophet and the priest be defouled; and in mine house, saith the Lord, I found the evil of them.

Jeremiah 34:19

and the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, and the honest servants, and priests went between the partings thereof, and all the people of the land, that went between the partings of the calf;

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion of the wood smote them; a wolf at eventide wasted them, a leopard waking or watching on the cities of them. Each man that goeth out of them, shall be taken; for the trespassings of them be multiplied, the turnings away of them be comforted.

Ezekiel 22:6

Lo! [the] princes of Israel, all in their arm, were in thee, to shed out blood.

Ezekiel 33:26

Ye stood in your swords, ye did your abominations, and each man defouled the wife of his neighbour; and shall ye wield the land by heritage?

Habakkuk 1:8

His horses be lighter than leopards, and swifter than eventide wolves, and his horsemen shall be scattered abroad; for why his horsemen shall come from far, they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat.