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Zeph. 3:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woe to νher that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

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craw, or, gluttonous.

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1-7: A sharp reproof of Jerusalem for divers sins.

8-13: An exhortation to wait for the restoration of Israel,

14-20: and to rejoice for their salvation by God.

her that is filthy.

or, gluttonous.

Heb. craw.

Lev. 1:16• ¹⁶And he shall remove its crop with its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east, into the place of the ashes; (Lev. 1:16)

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Isa. 5:7• ⁷For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry. (Isa. 5:7)

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Isa. 30:12• ¹²Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and confide in oppression and wilfulness, and depend thereon, (Isa. 30:12)

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Isa. 59:13• ¹³in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. (Isa. 59:13)

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Jer. 6:6• ⁶For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said: Hew ye down trees, and cast a mound against Jerusalem. She is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. (Jer. 6:6)

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Jer. 22:17• ¹⁷But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)

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Ezek. 22:7,29• ⁷In thee have they made light of 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.
²⁹The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:7,29)

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Amos 3:9• ⁹Publish 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 uproar in the midst thereof, and the oppressions that are within her: (Amos 3:9)

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Amos 4:1• ¹Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink: (Amos 4:1)

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Mic. 2:2• ²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. (Mic. 2:2)

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Zech. 7:10• ¹⁰and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. (Zech. 7:10)

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Mal. 3:5• ⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)

• This is not Nineveh, but Jerusalem. The most solemn word of God is always reserved for His own people, city, and sanctuary. Judgment must begin at His house. (“Zephaniah 3” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!