Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Alas for her that is rebellious, and polluted, the city that oppresseth!
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Holman Bible
the oppressive city!
International Standard Version
Woe to this filthy, polluted, and oppressive city!
A Conservative Version
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city!
American Standard Version
Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
Amplified
The tyrannical city [Jerusalem]!
Bible in Basic English
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
Darby Translation
Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!
Julia Smith Translation
Wo! to the wonderful and oppressing city being redeemed.
King James 2000
Woe to her that is rebellious and defiled, to the oppressing city!
Lexham Expanded Bible
Woe [to you], O rebellious and defiled one! The oppressing city!
Modern King James verseion
Woe to her rebelling and becoming defiled, to the oppressing city!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Woe to the abominable, filthy and cruel city:
NET Bible
The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished!
New Heart English Bible
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city.
Webster
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
World English Bible
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Youngs Literal Translation
Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!
Themes
Chastisement » The reward for not receiving correction
Closeness » The reward for not drawing near to God
Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as
Prophets » Names of persons spoken of as
Religious » Names of persons spoken of as
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Zephaniah 3:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment Of Jerusalem And The Nations
1 Alas for her that is rebellious, and polluted, the city that oppresseth! 2 She hath hearkened to no voice, accepted no correction; in Yahweh, hath not trusted, to her God, hath not drawn near:
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:6
For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Cut ye down timber, And cast up, against Jerusalem a mound, - That, is the city to be punished! There is, nothing, but oppression in her midst;
Leviticus 1:16
Then shall he take away its crop with its plumage, - and cast it beside the altar, eastward, into the place of fat ashes;
Isaiah 5:7
Surely the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted, - And he waited, For equity but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right but lo the cry of the wronged.
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore - Thus, saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye have rejected this word, - And have trusted in oppression and perverseness, And have relied thereon,
Isaiah 59:13
Transgressing, and denying Yahweh, And turning away from following our God, - Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving, and muttering from the heart, words of falsehood.
Jeremiah 22:17
Verily thou hast neither eyes nor heart, save for thy plundering and for thy shedding of innocent blood, and for oppression and for crushing to do them!
Ezekiel 22:7
Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression in the midst of thee, - The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,- Even the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And the sojourner have they oppressed without justice.
Ezekiel 23:30
These things shall be done to thee, In that thou hast gone unchastely after the nations, Because thou hast defiled thyself with their manufactured gods.
Amos 3:9
Announce it over the palaces in Ashdod, and over the palaces in the land of Egypt, - and say ye - Gather yourselves together upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold ye - the great disorders in the midst thereof, and the oppressed within her.
Amos 4:1
Hear ye this word, ye heifers of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, - who say to their lords, Bring in, and let us drink!
Micah 2:2
Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away, - and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance.
Zechariah 7:10
And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress, - and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts.
Malachi 3:5
Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood, - and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.