Zephaniah 3:1 Cross References - CLV

¹ Woe to her that is rebellious and sullied, the tyrannizing city!"

¹⁶ Then he will take away its craw with its filthy contents and fling it beside the altar eastward at the place for the greasy ash.

⁷ For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and each man of Judah His plant delectable. And He is expecting judgment, and behold! Transgression! Righteousness, and behold! A cry!"

¹² Wherefore, thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel:"Because you reject this word, and are trusting in extortion and are devious, and are leaning on it,

¹³ Transgression and dissimulation against Yahweh, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking perversity and stubbornness, pregnant with and soliloquizing from the heart, words of falsehood."

⁶ For thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Cut down her wood, And pour out against Jerusalem a mount, She [is] the city to be inspected, Wholly--she is oppression in her midst."

¹⁷ But your eyes and your heart are not, Except on your dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence."

⁷ Father and mother made light of in you, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in your midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in you."

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed--without judgment."

³⁰ To do these things to you, In your going a-whoring after nations, Because you have been defiled with their idols,

⁹ Announce it on the citadels in Ashdod, and on the citadels in the land of Egypt. And say, Gather on the mountains of Samaria, and see the vast discomfitures in her midst, and the extortions within her."

¹ Hear this word, young cows of Bashan, which are in the mountain of Samaria, the ones extorting the poor, the ones bruising the needy, the ones saying to their lords, Bring, and let us drink."

² And they covet fields and snatch them, and houses, and bear them away, and they extort the master and his house, the man and his allotment."

¹⁰ and you must not extort from a widow or orphan or the sojourner or the humble. And you must not devise evil, each man to his brother, in your heart."

⁵ Then I will come near to you for judgment, and become a hastening witness against the enchanters and against the adulterers, and against those who are swearing in My name to falsehood, and against those extorting the hire of the hireling, and those tyrannizing over the widow and taunting the orphan, and turning aside the sojourner, and do not fear Me, says Yahweh of hosts."