Zephaniah 3:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ Her prophets are wanton, faithless men; her priests profane what is sacred, they do violence to the law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Her prophets are light [lacking truth, gravity, and steadiness] and men of treachery; her priests have profaned the sanctuary; [defrauding God and man by pretending their own word is God's word] they have done violence to the law. [Jer. 23:11; Ezek. 22:26; Hos. 9:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Common English Bible

⁴ Her prophets are reckless, men of treachery. Her priests pollute that which is holy; they do violence to the Instruction.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Her prophets are crazed; men without faith. Her priests have polluted what is holy; they have acted unjustly against the law.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Her prophets are senseless men without faith: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have acted unjustly against the law.

Zephaniah 3:4 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 9:15

the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them; so they do not profit this people at all, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 34:19

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

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest every one is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest every one deals falsely.

Lamentations 2:14

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles false and misleading.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 22:6

“Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

Ezekiel 44:23

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

Hosea 9:7

The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.

Micah 2:11

If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!

Micah 3:11

Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.”

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised thy name?’

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 2:8

But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.

Judges 9:4

And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.

1 Samuel 2:22

Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.