Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

The just Jehovah is in her midst; He will not act perversely. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He fails not; but the perverse knows no shame.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord is righteous within her;
He will do no injustice.
Every morning He brings His justice to light;
He does not fail.
But the unjust knows no shame.

King James Version

The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

Holman Bible

The righteous Lord is in her;
He does no wrong.
He applies His justice morning by morning;
He does not fail at dawn,
yet the one who does wrong knows no shame.

International Standard Version

The righteous LORD who lives within her will do no wrong; he will bring justice to light morning by morning. He never fails, but the unjust are shameless.

A Conservative Version

LORD in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.

American Standard Version

Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his justice to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

Amplified


The Lord is righteous within her;
He will do no injustice.
Every morning He brings His justice to light;
He does not fail.
But the unjust person knows no shame.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.

Darby Translation

The righteous Jehovah is in the midst of her: he doeth no wrong. Every morning doth he bring his judgment to light; it faileth not: but the unrighteous knoweth no shame.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah is just in her midst; he will not do iniquity: in morning by morning he will give his judgment to the light, he as not wanting; and the evil will not know shame.

King James 2000

The just LORD is in her midst; he will do no wrong: every morning does he bring his judgment to light, he fails not; but the unjust knows no shame.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh [is] righteous in her midst; he does not do wickedness. {Morning by morning} he renders his judgment; at dawn he does not fail, but an evil one knows no shame.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But the just LORD that doth no unright, was among them, every morning showing them his law clearly, and ceased not. But the ungodly will not learn to be ashamed.

NET Bible

The just Lord resides within her; he commits no unjust acts. Every morning he reveals his justice. At dawn he appears without fail. Yet the unjust know no shame.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, but the unjust know no shame.

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh, the Righteous One, is in her midst, he dealeth not perversely, - Morning by morning, his justice, bringeth he forth the light, He is not found lacking, but the perverse man knoweth no shame.

Webster

The just LORD is in the midst of her; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

World English Bible

Yahweh, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, but the unjust know no shame.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah is righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The just
צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

is in the midst
קרב 
Qereb 
Usage: 226

thereof he will not do

Usage: 0

עלה עולה עולה עול עול 
`evel 
Usage: 53

בּקר 
Boqer 
Usage: 214

בּקר 
Boqer 
Usage: 214

doth he bring
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

to light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

he faileth
עדר 
`adar 
Usage: 11

not but the unjust
עוּל 
`avval 
Usage: 5

References

Images Zephaniah 3:5

Prayers for Zephaniah 3:5

Context Readings

Judgment Of Jerusalem And The Nations

4 Her prophets are proud, men of deceit; her priests have defiled the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law. 5 The just Jehovah is in her midst; He will not act perversely. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He fails not; but the perverse knows no shame. 6 I have cut off the nations; their towers are ruined. I made their streets waste, so that none passes by; their cities are laid waste, without a man, there being no inhabitant.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock; His work is perfect. For all His ways are just, a God of faithfulness, and without evil; just and upright is He.

Zephaniah 3:15

Jehovah has turned off your judgments; He has cast out your enemy. The king of Israel, Jehovah, is in your midst; you shall not fear evil any more.

Zephaniah 3:17

Jehovah your God is mighty in your midst; He will save, He will rejoice over you with joy; He is silent in His love; He rejoices over you with joyful shout.

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from You to act in this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked. And far be it from You, that the righteous should be as the wicked. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Deuteronomy 23:14

For Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, so that He may see no unclean thing in you and turn away from you.

Job 8:3

Does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?

Job 34:10

Therefore listen to me, O man of heart; far be it from God to commit iniquity; and from the Almighty, to do wrong.

Job 34:17-19

Shall one who hates right govern? And will you condemn Him who is just and mighty?

Psalm 37:6

And He shall bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your judgment like the noonday.

Psalm 99:3-4

Let them praise Your great and fearful name; it is holy.

Psalm 145:17

Jehovah is righteous in all His ways and holy in all His works.

Ecclesiastes 3:16-17

And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry out and shout, O dweller of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

Isaiah 28:19

From the time that it goes out it shall take you; for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be only a terror to understand the message.

Isaiah 33:2

O Jehovah, be gracious to us; we have waited for You; be their arm in the mornings; our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Isaiah 42:3-4

A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring out judgment to truth.

Isaiah 45:21

Declare and bring near; yea, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this of old? Who has told it from then? Is it not I, Jehovah? And there is no other God besides Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know to help the weary with a word. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they had done an abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David, so says Jehovah: Do judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire, and burn so that none can put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Lamentations 3:23

They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.

Ezekiel 48:35

All around it shall be eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city from that day shall be JEHOVAH IS THERE.

Micah 3:11

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

Micah 7:9

I will bear the fury of Jehovah, because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my cause and brings out judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You show me evil, and You look on toil? For destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention rises up.

Zephaniah 2:1

Gather yourselves together; yea, gather, O nation not desired;

Zechariah 2:5

And I, says Jehovah, will be to her a wall of fire all around, and will be the glory in her midst.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King comes to you. He is righteous and victorious, meek and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass.

Luke 12:2

For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor anything hidden that shall not be known.

Romans 2:5

But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up wrath for yourself in a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Romans 3:26

for the display of His righteousness at this time, for Him to be just and, forgiving the one being of the faith of Jesus.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall each one have praise of God.

1 Peter 1:17

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, pass the time of your earthly residence in fear,

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