Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Zephaniah 3:1 in other translations
| BSB | Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! |
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| WEB | Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! |
| ASV | Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city! |
| YLT | Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city! |
| DARBY | Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city! |
| BBE | Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town! |
| Webster | Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! |
What does Zephaniah 3:1 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Zep 3:1-20. Resumption of the Denunciation of Jerusalem, as Being Unreformed by the Punishment of Other Nations: After Her Chastisement Jehovah Will Interpose for Her against Her Foes; His Worship Shall Flourish in All Lands, Beginning at Jerusalem, Where He Shall Be in the Midst of His People, and Shall Make Them a Praise in All the Earth.
1. filthy--Maurer translates from a different root, "rebellious," "contumacious." But the following term, "polluted," refers rather to her inward moral filth, in spite of her outward ceremonial purity [Calvin]. 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 (Jr 22:3).Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Introduction
The prophet reproves Jerusalem, and all her guides and rulers, for their obstinate perseverance in impiety, notwithstanding all the warnings and corrections which they had received from God, Zep 3:1-7. They are encouraged, however, after they shall have been chastised for their idolatry, and cured of it, to look for mercy and restoration, Zep 3:8-13; and exited to hymns of joy at the glorious prospect, Zep 3:14-17. After which the prophet concludes with large promises of favor and prosperity in the days of the Messiah, Zep 3:18-20. We take this extensive view of the concluding verses of this chapter, because an apostle has expressly assured us that in Every prophetical book of the Old Testament Scriptures are confined predictions relative to the Gospel dispensation. See Act 3:24. Verse 1 Wo to her that is filthy - This is a denunciation of Divine judgment against Jerusalem.Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Zephaniah 3:1-7
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Zephaniah 3:1 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Zephaniah 3:1
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- 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.
- Ezekiel 22:7
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
- Jeremiah 22:17
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
- Micah 2:2
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
- Leviticus 1:16
And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
- Amos 3:9
Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
- Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
8 An exhortation to wait for the restoration of Israel,
14 and to rejoice for their salvation by God.
her that is filthy. or, gluttonous. Heb. craw.
Le 1:16
to the.
Isa 5:7; 30:12; 59:13; Jer 6:6; 22:17; Eze 22:7,29; Am 3:9; 4:1
Mic 2:2; Zec 7:10; Mal 3:5
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Context
- Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
- Zephaniah 3:2
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.
Zephaniah 3:1 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¡AY de la ciudad ensuciada y contaminada y opresora! |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Malheur à la rebelle, à la corrompue, à la ville qui opprime! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wehe der Widerspenstigen und Befleckten, der bedrückenden Stadt! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Væ provocatrix, et redempta civitas, columba! |