Zephaniah 3:3 Cross References - Coverdale

³ Hir rulers within her are as roaringe lyons: hir iudges are as wolues in the euenynge, which leaue nothinge behynde them till the morow.

⁸ As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same. ⁹ For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath. ¹⁰ The roaringe of the lyon, the cryenge off the lyonesse, & ye teth off ye lyos whelpes are broke. ¹¹ The greate lyon perysheth, because he ca get no pray and the lyons whelpes are scatred abrode.

⁸ He lyeth waytinge secretly, as it were a lyon in his denne. He lurketh that he maye rauysh the poore, ⁹ yee to rauish the poore, when he hath gotten him in to his nett. ¹⁰ Then smyteth he, then oppresseth he & casteth downe the poore with his auctorite.

¹⁵ Like as a roaringe lyon and an hongrie beer, euen so is an vngodly prynce ouer the poore people.

²³ Thy prynces are traytours and companyons of theues. They loue giftes altogether, and folowe rewardes. As for the fatherles, they helpe him not to his right, nether wil they let the wydowes causes come before them.

⁶ Wherfore a lyon out of the wod shal hurte them, and a wolfe in the euenynge shal destroye them. The cat of the mountayne shal lie lurkinge by their cities, to teare in peces all them, that come therout. For their offences are many, and their departinge awaye is greate.

¹⁷ Neuertheles, as for thine eyes and thine herte, they loke vpon covetousnesse, to shed innocent bloude, to do wronge and violence.

⁶ Beholde, the rulers of Israel haue brought euery man his power, to shed bloude in the.

²⁵ thy prophetes that are in the, are sworne together to deuoure soules, like as a roaringe Lyon, that lyueth by his pray. They receaue riches and good, and make many wyddowes in ye. ²⁶ Thy prestes breake my lawe, and defyle my Sanctuary. They put no dyfference betwene the holy and vnholy, nether discerne betwene the clene and vnclene: they turne their eyes fro my Sabbathes, and I am vnhalowed amonge them. ²⁷ Thy rulers in the are like rauyshinge wolues, to shed bloude, and to destroye soules, for their owne covetous lucre.

¹ Heare, o ye heades of the house of Iacob, and ye leders of the house of Israel: Shulde not ye knowe, what were laufull and right? ² But ye hate the good, and loue the euell: ye plucke of mens skynnes, and the flesh from their bones: ³ Ye eate the flesh of my people, ad flay of their skynne: ye breake their bones, ye choppe them in peces as it were in to a cauldron, ad as flesh into a pot. ⁴ Now the tyme shall come, that when they call vnto the LORDE, he shall not heare them, but hyde his face from them: because that thorow their owne ymaginacios, they haue dealte so wickedly.

⁹ O heare this ye rulers of the house of Iacob, and ye iudges of the house off Israel: ye that abhorre the thinge that is laufull, and wraist asyde the thinge that is straight: ¹⁰ Ye that buylde vp Sion with bloude, and Ierusalem with doynge wronge. ¹¹ O ye iudges, ye geue sentence for giftes: O ye preastes, ye teach for lucre: O ye prophetes, ye prophecy for money. Yet wil they be take as those that holde vpon God, and saye: Is not the LORDE amonge vs? Tush, there can no misfortune happen vs.

⁸ Their horses are swifter then the cattes of the mountayne, & byte sorer then ye wolues in ye euenynge. Their horsmen come by greate heapes from farre, they fle hastely to deuor as the Aegle.