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Zephaniah 3:1 KJV
Zephaniah · chapter 3 · verse 1
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!Zephaniah 3:1 · King James Version
Zephaniah 3:1 in context
1Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- oppressingyânâhto rage or be violentH3238 →
- pollutedgâʼalto soil or desecrateH1351 →
- filthymârâʼto rebelH4754 →
- Woehôwyoh!H1945 →
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One would wonder that Jerusalem, the holy city, where God was known, and his name was great, should be the city of which this black character is here given, that a place which enjoyed such abundance of the means of grace should become so very corrupt and vicious, and that God should permit it to be so;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7