| Geneva Study Bible Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they {b} gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (b) They are so greedy, that they eat up bones and all. Wesley's Notes 3:3 Her princes - Persons of principal place and authority. Lions - Which hunt for prey, and are ever affrighting or devouring. Wolves - Insatiable and cruel, like wolves of the evening, whetted with hunger. Gnaw not the bones - They leave nothing but the bones to be eaten on the morrow. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 3. roaring-for prey (Pr 28:15; Eze 22:27; Am 3:4; Mic 2:2). evening wolves-which are most ravenous at evening after being foodless all day (Jer 5:6; Hab 1:8). they gnaw not the bones till the morrow-rather, "they put not off till to-morrow to gnaw the bones"; but devour all at once, bones and flesh, so ragingly ravenous are they [Calvin]. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 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. | 
