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Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions, bent upon rapine and murder; her judges are evening wolves, driven forth by hunger in the evening, their greed being insatiable; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow, their voracious appetite causing them instantly to devour their victims, laying nothing aside for the next day.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Zephaniah 3:3. _HER PRINCES _- ARE _ROARING LIONS_] Tearing all to pieces without shadow of law, except their own despotic power. _HER JUDGES_ ARE _EVENING WOLVES_] Being a little afraid of the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The prophet having declared the wickedness of the whole city, rehearses how each in Church and state, the ministers of God in either, who should have corrected the evil, themselves aggravated it. Not...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 2-3:8 The Call to Repentance in View of the Judgment _ 1. The call to repentance (Zephaniah 2:1) _ 2. The judgment of the Philistines (Zephaniah 2:4) 3. The judgment of Moab and Ammon (Z...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIN OF JERUSALEM CONTRASTED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF YAHWEH. From scenes of doom and desolation we are now led back in thought to the sins that drew down Yahweh's hand in wrath. Despite His const...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GNAW NOT: or, reserve not....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Zephaniah 3:1-8. Renewed threat against Jerusalem in particular Ch. 3 returns to Jerusalem. The city is reproached as rebellious, polluted, and full of oppression (Zephaniah 3:1); disobedient to God...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Every class does evil, each in its own way. A very full parallel is Ezekiel 22:25-28 (in Ezekiel 22:25 read _princes_). The "princes" may be the royal house, or the magnates in whose hands lay the jud...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _JERUSALEM REBELLED AGAINST GOD -- ZEPHANIAH 3:1-7:_ The people of Jerusalem and the entire nation had rebelled against God. Jerusalem had become a disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city. Those that fa...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER XXII COMFORT AND CONSOLATION REAFFIRMATION OF JUDGEMENT. Zephaniah 3:1-8 RV. Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not co...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her princes within her are roaring lions - "roaring" for pray (; ; ;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT UPON THE EVIL RULERS OF JERUSALEM, AND ITS ULTIMATE PURIFICATION AND RESTORATION Like Amos and Micah, the prophet sternly denounces the crimes of the ruling classes in Jerusalem, points o...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 (It will be) very sad for the city (called Jerusalem). (It has become a city where people) do not obey (God). It (is) dirt...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TILL THE MORROW. — Better, _on the morrow._ The meaning is just the opposite to that given in the Authorised Version. They are so greedy that they devour their prey instantly, leaving _no_ portion of...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    III. (1-4) The prophet denounces the corruption and moral obduracy which characterise all classes in Jerusalem. This denunciation comes in with startling abruptness. The prophet does not even name th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָׂרֶ֣יהָ בְ קִרְבָּ֔הּ אֲרָיֹ֖ות שֹֽׁאֲגִ֑ים שֹׁפְטֶ֨יהָ֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    SO AS BY FIRE Zephaniah 3:1 THE third chapter of the Book of Zephaniah consists of two sections, of which only the first, Zephaniah 3:1, is a genuine work of the prophet; while the second, Zephaniah...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FULLNESS OF SALVATION Zephaniah 3:1-20 _The sins of Jerusalem_, Zephaniah 3:1-7. Uninfluenced by judgments upon other nations, Jerusalem pursued her course, morally impure, oppressive, refusing instr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter the prophet yet more clearly set forth the sin of the people, and spoke of the hopelessness of the case from the human standpoint. This gave him his opportunity to announce the victory...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Evening. Septuagint, "Arabian," Habacuc i. 8. Such was the state of the kingdom before the reform of Josias. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! (2) She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. (3) Her princes w...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zephaniah like Habakkuk will be found to have some points of resemblance with the prophet Jeremiah; and this not merely in the fact that the Chaldean is the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet now explains what we have stated respecting plunder and fraud. He confirms that he had not without reason called Jerusalem היונה, _eiune_, a rapacious city, or one given to plunder; for th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    SUMMARY TO ZEPHANIAH Amid this judgment of the nation Jerusalem holds the chief place. In chapter 3, the Spirit of God, while laying open the iniquity which occasioned it, turns towards the remnant, a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HER PRINCES WITHIN HER [ARE] ROARING LIONS,.... Or, "as roaring lions"; there being a defect of the note of similitude; which is supplied by the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic v...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Ver. 3. _Her princes within her are roaring lions_] Roaring over the meaner sort,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Her princes are roaring lions_ Are like devouring lions, who roar in the act of seizing their prey. _Her judges are evening wolves_ Like so many beasts of prey. The princes and judges devour the peop...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HER PRINCES; persons of principal place and authority about the king, chief officers in civil matters. and, which is worse, her own princes, born and bred among them, who should have been most tender...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Zephaniah 3:3 princes H8269 midst H7130 roaring H7580 (H8802) lions H738 judges H8199 (H8802) evening H6153 wolves...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONDITION OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM (ZEPHANIAH 3:1). Zephaniah 3:1 ‘Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, To the oppressing city. She did not obey the voice. She did not receive correction....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jerusalem's moral state in time of Zephaniah. The coming judgment of nations and kingdom blessing for restored Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The end of nations that have continued to...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Zephaniah 3:1. _Woe to the oppressing city,_ to Jerusalem, now polluted with every crime, and every year growing a carcase for the eagles. Zephaniah 3:6. _I have cut off the nations._ The Chaldaic rea...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! _ A RELIGIOUS CITY TERRIBLY DEGENERATE I. A professedly religious city terribly degenerated. 1. The princes are mentioned. They are...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:1 God’s people cannot think that they will emerge unscathed on the day of the Lord. If they sin (vv. Zephaniah 3:1) and are shameless (v....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ZEPHANIAH—NOTE ON ZEPHANIAH 3:3 The city’s OFFICIALS (Zephaniah 1:8; 1 Chronicles

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] WOE] to Jerusalem; others, Nineveh. FILTHY] From a word, to straighten oneself; hence, to rebel, to be refractory. ZEPHANIAH 3:2. VOICE] In law and prophets. CORRECTION] Instruction...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION. ZEPHANIAH 3:1 § 6. The prophet turns to Jerusalem, and warns her that, if God punishes the heathen, he will not spare the hardened sinners in Judah. ZEPHANIAH 3:1 WOE TO HER! This is ad...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the Lord speaks against Jerusalem. Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she receive not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 22:25; Ezekiel 22:6; Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 1:23; Jeremiah 22:

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 hung...

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