Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! New Living Translation What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime! English Standard Version Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city! Berean Standard Bible Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! King James Bible Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! New King James Version Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, To the oppressing city! New American Standard Bible Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The oppressive city! NASB 1995 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city! NASB 1977 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city! Legacy Standard Bible Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The oppressive city! Amplified Bible Woe (judgment is coming) to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city [Jerusalem]! Christian Standard Bible Woe to the city that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressive city! Holman Christian Standard Bible Woe to the city that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressive city! American Standard Version Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city! Contemporary English Version Too bad for that disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city! English Revised Version Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city! GOD'S WORD® Translation How horrible it will be for that rebellious and corrupt place, the city of violence. Good News Translation Jerusalem is doomed, that corrupt, rebellious city that oppresses its own people. International Standard Version Woe to this filthy, polluted, and oppressive city! Majority Standard Bible Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! NET Bible The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished! New Heart English Bible Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city. Webster's Bible Translation Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! World English Bible Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionWoe [to] the rebelling and defiling, "" The oppressing city! Young's Literal Translation Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city! Smith's Literal Translation Wo! to the wonderful and oppressing city being redeemed. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleWoe to the provoking, and redeemed city, the dove. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to the provocatrix and the redeemed city, the dove. New American Bible Ah! Rebellious and polluted, the tyrannical city! New Revised Standard Version Ah, soiled, defiled, oppressing city! Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleOH, the famous city, the saved city; the city of Jonah! Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Oh, famous city and the redeemed city of Yonan! OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, To the oppressing city! Brenton Septuagint Translation Alas the glorious and ransomed city. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Judgment on Jerusalem1Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! 2She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.… Cross References Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. Jeremiah 6:6-8 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst. / As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me. / Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.” Ezekiel 22:2-4 “As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations / and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself, / you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. Micah 3:9-12 Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right, / who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. / Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.” ... Hosea 7:1-2 When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets. / But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face. Amos 3:9-10 Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.” / “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.” Nahum 3:1-4 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey. / The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! / Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead— ... Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away. Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Romans 3:9-18 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. / As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. / There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. ... Revelation 18:2-3 And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast. / All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.” Isaiah 59:7-8 Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. / The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace. Jeremiah 5:23-25 But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away. / They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’ / Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty. Ezekiel 24:6-9 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents. / For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. / In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’ ... Treasury of Scripture Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! her that is filthy. 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: to the. 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. 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: 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. Jump to Previous City Corrupted Cruel Defiled Filthy Oppressing Oppressors Polluted Rebellious Sorrow Tyrannical Unclean Uncontrolled Wo WoeJump to Next City Corrupted Cruel Defiled Filthy Oppressing Oppressors Polluted Rebellious Sorrow Tyrannical Unclean Uncontrolled Wo WoeZephaniah 3 1. A sharp reproof of Jerusalem for various sins.8. An exhortation to wait for the restoration of Israel, 14. and to rejoice for their salvation by God. Woe The term "woe" is a powerful expression of lamentation and impending judgment. In Hebrew, the word is "הוֹי" (hoy), often used by prophets to announce divine displeasure and the severe consequences that follow. This word sets the tone for the verse, indicating that what follows is a serious indictment from God. It serves as a warning to the people, urging them to recognize their sins and repent. The use of "woe" is a call to attention, emphasizing the gravity of the situation and the urgent need for change. to the city of oppressors rebellious and defiled Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Woeה֥וֹי (hō·w) Interjection Strong's 1945: Ah! alas! ha! to the city הָעִ֖יר (hā·‘îr) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement of oppressors, הַיּוֹנָֽה׃ (hay·yō·w·nāh) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 3238: To rage, be violent, to suppress, to maltreat rebellious מֹרְאָ֖ה (mō·rə·’āh) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 4754: Perhaps to flap (the wings) and defiled! וְנִגְאָלָ֑ה (wə·niḡ·’ā·lāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 1351: To soil, desecrate Links Zephaniah 3:1 NIVZephaniah 3:1 NLT Zephaniah 3:1 ESV Zephaniah 3:1 NASB Zephaniah 3:1 KJV Zephaniah 3:1 BibleApps.com Zephaniah 3:1 Biblia Paralela Zephaniah 3:1 Chinese Bible Zephaniah 3:1 French Bible Zephaniah 3:1 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Zephaniah 3:1 Woe to her who is rebellious (Zeph. Zep Zp) |