Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Zephaniah 3:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She didn't trust in the LORD. She didn't draw near to her God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition She did not listen to and heed the voice [of God]; she accepted no correction or instruction; she trusted not in the Lord [nor leaned on or was confident in Him, but was confident in her own wealth]; she drew not near to her God [but to the god of Baal or Molech]. American Standard Version (1901) She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God. Common English Bible She listened to no voice; she accepted no discipline. She didn’t trust in the LORD, nor did she draw near to her God. Catholic Public Domain Version She has not heeded the voice, nor has she accepted discipline. She has not trusted in the Lord; she did not draw near to her God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received discipline: she hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew not near to her God. |
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his yeshu`ah.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
and say, *How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
The Lord said, *Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a mitzvah of men which has been taught;
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Yisra'el, and they don't seek the LORD!
Yet you have not called on me, Ya`akov; but you have been weary of me, Yisra'el.
The Syrians in front, and the Pelishtim behind; and they will devour Yisra'el with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.
They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Yisra'el: Go, and tell the men of Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words? says the LORD.
therefore thus says the LORD, the God Tzeva'ot, the God of Yisra'el: Behold, I will bring on Yehudah and on all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.
O LORD, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.
In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven't sought the LORD nor inquired after him.
Every writing inspired by God is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness,
let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,