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Zephaniah 3:4 KJV
Zephaniah · chapter 3 · verse 4
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.Zephaniah 3:4 · King James Version
Zephaniah 3:4 in context
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.
4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
5The 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.
6I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- treacherousbôgᵉdôwthtreacheriesH900 →
- sanctuaryqôdesha sacred place or thingH6944 →
- prophetsnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- pollutedchâlalproperly, to boreH2490 →
- violencechâmaçto be violentH2554 →
- personsʼĕnôwsha man in generalH582 →
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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