Second Sunday after Easter
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
Bible in Basic English
Zephaniah 3:1
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- TheDictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- TheDevotionals:
- EveryParallel Translations
Woe to the city that is rebellious and defiled,
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the oppressing citie.
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The oppressive city!
How terrible for the wicked, stubborn city of Jerusalem, which hurts its own people.
Woe (judgment is coming) to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city [Jerusalem]!
Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the robbing citie.
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city!
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,The oppressive city!
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
Too bad for that disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city!
Woe to her who is filthy, defiled; woe to the tyrant city!
Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!
Jerusalem, your people fought against God. They hurt other people, and you have been stained with sin.
OH, the famous city, the saved city; the city of Jonah!
Jerusalem is doomed, that corrupt, rebellious city that oppresses its own people.
Woe to you, O rebellious and defiled one! The oppressing city!
Woe to her rebelling and being defiled, to the oppressing city!
Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Wo to that abhominable, filthy, and cruel citie.
This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how is she become desolate, a habitation of wild beasts! every one that passes through her shall hiss, and shake his hands.
Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Wo! thou citee, terrere to wraththe, and bouyt ayen a culuer.
Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished!
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, To the oppressing city!
What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime!
It is bad for her who does not obey and is unclean, the city who makes it hard for the people!
Ah, soiled, defiled, oppressing city!
Alas for her that is rebellious, and polluted, the city that oppresseth!
Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove.
Woe to her that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
Wo [to] the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!
Wo to the abhominable, fylthie and cruel cite:
Doom to the rebellious city, the home of oppressors—Sewer City! The city that wouldn't take advice, wouldn't accept correction, Wouldn't trust God , wouldn't even get close to her own god! Her very own leaders are rapacious lions, Her judges are rapacious timber wolves out every morning prowling for a fresh kill. Her prophets are out for what they can get. They're opportunists—you can't trust them. Her priests desecrate the Sanctuary. They use God's law as a weapon to maim and kill souls. Yet God remains righteous in her midst, untouched by the evil. He stays at it, day after day, meting out justice. At evening he's still at it, strong as ever. But evil men and women, without conscience and without shame, persist in evil.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
her that is filthy: or, gluttonous, Heb. craw, Leviticus 1:16
to the: Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 59:13, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 22:17, Ezekiel 22:7, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 3:9, Amos 4:1, Micah 2:2, Zechariah 7:10, Malachi 3:5
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:6 - General Psalms 55:10 - mischief Isaiah 1:5 - the whole Isaiah 1:21 - it was full Isaiah 4:4 - washed away Isaiah 59:14 - General Jeremiah 3:5 - thou hast spoken Jeremiah 5:3 - thou hast stricken Jeremiah 9:13 - General Jeremiah 11:9 - General Jeremiah 13:27 - Woe Jeremiah 16:18 - they have defiled Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 32:32 - they Jeremiah 38:4 - the princes Jeremiah 51:5 - though Lamentations 1:5 - for Ezekiel 9:9 - The iniquity Ezekiel 16:23 - woe Ezekiel 16:36 - Because Ezekiel 19:2 - A lioness Ezekiel 33:29 - because Hosea 4:2 - swearing Hosea 5:2 - a rebuker Nahum 3:1 - to 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - defraud
Cross-References
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.
In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.
If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.
And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.
And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Woe to her that is filthy, and polluted,.... Meaning the city of Jerusalem, and its inhabitants; not as before the Babylonish captivity, but after their return from it, under the second temple, as Abarbinel owns; and even as in the times before and at the coming of Christ, and the preaching of his apostles among them; as the whole series of the prophecy, and the connection of the several parts of it, show; and there are such plain intimations of the conversion of the Gentiles, and of such a happy state of the Jews, in which they shall see evil no more, as can agree with no other times than the times of the Gospel, both the beginning and latter part of them. The character of this city, and its inhabitants, is, that it was "filthy", and polluted with murders, adulteries, oppression, rapine, and other sins: our Lord often calls them a wicked and an adulterous generation; and yet they pretended to great purity of life and manners; and they were pure in their own eyes, though not washed from their filthiness; they took much pains to make clean the outside of the cup, but within were full of impurity, Matthew 23:25. In the margin it is, "woe to her that is gluttonous". The word is used for the craw or crop of a fowl, Leviticus 1:16 hence some render it t "woe to the craw"; to the city that is all craw, to which Jerusalem is compared for its devouring the wealth and substance of others. The Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time are said to devour widows' houses, Matthew 23:14 and this seems to be the sin with which they were defiled, and here charged with. Some think the word signifies one that is publicly, infamous; either made a public example of, or openly exposed, as sometimes filthy harlots are; or rather one "that has made herself infamous" u; by her sins and vices:
to the oppressing city! that oppressed the poor, the widow, and the fatherless. This may have respect to the inhabitants of Jerusalem stoning the prophets of the Lord sent unto them; to the discouragements they laid the followers of Christ under, by not suffering such to come to hear him that were inclined; threatening to cast them out of their synagogues if they professed him, which passed into a law; and to their killing the Lord of life and glory; and the persecution of his apostles, ministers, and people: see Matthew 23:13. Some render it, "to the city a dove" w; being like a silly dove without heart, as in Hosea 7:11. R. Azariah x thinks Jerusalem is so called because in its works it was like Babylon, which had for its military sign on its standard a dove; Hosea 7:11- : Hosea 7:11- : Hosea 7:11- : but the former sense is best.
t הוי מוראה "vae ingluviei", Junius Tremellius, Piscator. u ουας τη παραδειγματιζομηνη "vae huic quae infamatur", L'Empereur Not. in Mosis Kimchii οιδοποζια "ad scientiam", p. 174. so Drusius and Tarnovius. w חעיר היונה πολις η περιστερα, Sept. "civitas columba", V. L.; so Syr. Ar. Jarchi, and other Jewish interpreters. x Meor Enayin, c. 21. fol. 90. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The “woe,” having gone round the pagan nations, again circles round where it began, the “Jerusalem that killed the prophets and stoned those that were sent unto her” Matthew 23:37. Woe upon her, and joy to the holy Jerusalem, the “new Jerusalem Revelation 3:12; Revelation 21:10, the Jerusalem which is from above, the mother of us all,” close this prophecy; both in figure; destruction of her and the whole earth, in time, the emblem of the eternal death; and the love of God, the foretaste of endless joy in Him.
Woe - “Rebellious and polluted;” “thou oppressive city!” . The address is the more abrupt, and bursts more upon her, since the prophet does not name her. He uses as her proper name, not her own name, city of peace,” but “rebellious,” “polluted;” then he sums up in one, thou “oppressive city.”
Jerusalem’s sin is threefold, actively rebelling against God; then, inwardly defiled by sin; then cruel to man. So then, toward God, in herself, toward man, she is wholly turned to evil, not in passing acts, but in her abiding state:
(1) rebellious
(2) defiled
(3) oppressive
She is known only by what she has become, and what has been done for her in vain. She is rebellious, and so had had the law; defiled, and so had been cleansed; and therefore her state is the more hopeless.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER III
The prophet reproves Jerusalem, and all her guides and rulers,
for their obstinate perseverance in impiety, notwithstanding
all the warnings and corrections which they had received from
God, 1-7.
They are encouraged, however, after they shall have been
chastised for their idolatry, and cured of it, to look for
mercy and restoration, 8-13;
and exited to hymns of joy at the glorious prospect, 14-17.
After which the prophet concludes with large promises of
favour and prosperity in the days of the Messiah, 18-20.
We take this extensive view of the concluding verses of this
chapter, because an apostle has expressly assured us that in
EVERY prophetical book of the Old Testament Scriptures are
confined predictions relative to the Gospel dispensation.
See Acts 3:24.
NOTES ON CHAP. III
Verse Zephaniah 3:1. Wo to her that is filthy — This is a denunciation of Divine judgment against Jerusalem.
