Zephaniah 3:1 KJV — MannaFest

Zephaniah 3:1

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

KJV

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ASV

Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!

WEB

Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

YLT

Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

DBT

Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!

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Zephaniah — A great-great-grandson of Hezekiah prophesying in Josiah's day. Judgment on Judah, judgment on the nations, and a closing song of the LORD singing over his people.

Author: Zephaniah, son of Cushi, four generations from Hizkiah (Hezekiah) — 1:1
Date: During Josiah's reign, c. 640–609 BC

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Jeremiah 6:6
For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
Isaiah 30:12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Isaiah 59:13
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

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Sin is the filthiness and pollution of persons and places, and makes them odious in the sight of the holy God. She wrongs her neighbours and inhabitants; she is the oppressing city. Never any place had statutes and judgments so righteous as this city had, and yet, in the administration of the government, never was more unrighteousness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

By way of promise of mercy and grace, which God had yet in reserve for them. Two general heads of promises here are:-- 1. That God would bring in a glorious work of reformation among them, cleanse them from their sins, and bring them home to himself; many promises of this kind here are,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

GROTIUS says, the Hebrew is used of women who have prostituted their virtue. There is in the Hebrew Moreah; a play on the name Moriah, the hill on which the temple was built; implying the glaring contrast between their filthiness and the holiness of the worship on Moriah in which they professed to have a share. oppressing--namely, the poor, weak, widows, orphans and strangers (Jer 22:3).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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ZEP 3:1MAL 3:5 JAS 5:8-9
ZEP 3:1MAL 3:5 DEU 27:19
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
ZEP 3:1MAL 3:5 HEB 13:4
ZEP 3:1MAL 3:5 DEU 5:11
ZEP 3:1MAL 3:5 JAS 5:4
ZEP 3:1ZEC 7:10 JER 5:28
ZEP 3:1ISA 30:12 ISA 31:1-3
ZEP 3:1ZEC 7:10 ISA 1:23

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