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 3:2 in other translations
| BSB | She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God. |
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| WEB | She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in the LORD. She didn’t draw near to her God. |
| ASV | She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God. |
| YLT | She hath not hearkened to the voice, She hath not accepted instruction, In Jehovah she hath not trusted, Unto her God she hath not drawn near. |
| DARBY | She hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she confided not in Jehovah; she drew not near her God. |
| BBE | She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God. |
| Webster | She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. |
What does Zephaniah 3:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Zephaniah 3:1-7
The holy God hates sin most in those nearest to him. A sinful state is, and will be, a woful state. Yet they had the tokens of God's presence, and all the advantages of knowing his will, with the strongest reasons to do it; still they persisted in disobedience. Alas, that men often are more active in doing wickedness than believers are in doing good.
Zephaniah 3:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Zephaniah 3:2
- Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
- Jeremiah 22:21
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
- Psalms 73:28
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.
- Jeremiah 7:23-28
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. …
- Psalms 78:22
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
- Isaiah 43:22
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
- Deuteronomy 28:15-68
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. …
- Psalms 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
- Proverbs 5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Psalms 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 28:15-68; Ne 9:26; Jer 7:23-28; 22:21; Zec 7:11-14
she received.
Isa 1:5; Jer 2:30; 5:3; Eze 24:13
correction. or, instruction.
Ps 50:17; Pr 1:7; 5:12; Jer 32:33; 35:13,17; Joh 3:18,19
she trusted.
Ps 78:22; Isa 30:1-3; 31:1; Jer 17:5,6
she drew.
Ps 10:4; Isa 29:13; 43:22; Heb 10:22
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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 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Zephaniah 3:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No escuchó la voz, ni recibió la disciplina: no se confió en Jehová, no se acercó á su Dios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Elle n’écoute pas la voix, elle ne reçoit pas l’instruction, elle ne se confie pas en l’ Éternel, elle ne s’approche pas de son Dieu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie hat auf keine Stimme gehört, keine Zucht angenommen; auf Jehova hat sie nicht vertraut, ihrem Gott sich nicht genaht. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | non audivit vocem, et non suscepit disciplinam; in Domino non est confisa, ad Deum suum non appropinquavit. |