Zephaniah 3:1
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!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Oh, famous city and the redeemed city of Yonan!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Alas the glorious and ransomed city.

Contemporary English Version
Too bad for that disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to the provoking, and redeemed city, the dove.

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!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, To the oppressing city!

Literal Standard Version
Woe [to] the rebelling and defiling, | The oppressing city!

Majority Standard Bible
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

New American Bible
Ah! Rebellious and polluted, the tyrannical city!

NET Bible
The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished!

New Revised Standard Version
Ah, soiled, defiled, oppressing city!

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!

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Judgment on Jerusalem
1Woe 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
Jeremiah 5:23
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

Jeremiah 6:6
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.

Ezekiel 23:30
have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.


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.

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Zephaniah 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.














Verses 1-5. - § 6. The prophet turns to Jerusalem, and warns her that, if God punishes the heathen, he will not spare the hardened sinners in Judah. Verse 1. - Woe to her! This is addressed to Jerusalem, as is seen by vers. 2-4. Filthy; rather, rebellious, i.e. against God. The LXX., mistaking the word, renders ἐπιφανής, "notable." So the Syriac. Jerome has provocatrix. The true sense is seen by the expansion of the term in ver. 2. polluted by her many sins. Jerome, following the Septuagint ἀπολευτρωμένη, "ransomed," has, redempta, which he explains, "Captivitatibus traditia, et rursum redempta." The oppressing city, that acts unjustly and cruelly to the weak and poor. So the three sins for which she is here denounced are that she is rebellious against God, defiled with sin in herself, and cruel to others. The Septuagiut and Vulgate translate jonah ("oppressing") "dove," which seems singularly inappropriate here, though some try to explain it as applied to Jerusalem in the sense of "silly" or "stupid" (Hosea 7:11)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Woe
ה֥וֹי (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


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