Zephaniah 3:2

She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

Ver. 2. She obeyed not the voice] sc. Of her teachers, nor inclined her ear to them that instructed her, as Proverbs 5:13. Hence she was so filthy and oppressive; who, if she had hearkened to wholesome counsel, and hidden the word of God's grace in her heart, would have purified herself even as he is pure, 1 John 3:3, and not have exacted money and grain, but have left off that usury, Nehemiah 5:10 .

She received not correction] Or discipline, as being incurable or incorrigible, pining away in her iniquity, Leviticus 26:39, and not accepting the chastisement of her sin.

She trusted not in the Lord] But knocked at the creature's door for help in her distress, and made flesh her arm, her heart departed from the Lord, Jeremiah 17:5. This God taketh very ill, Jeremiah 2:12,13, as he hath very great reason; confidence being the least and yet the best we can render to him for all his benefits.

She drew not near to her God] Though he were her God, yet she went as far from him as she could; and, like a wild beast, would not be tamed nor managed by him. Now, if these be undoubted arguments of a filthy and polluted state, as surely they are, what shall we think of ourselves, who are as deeply guilty as ever Jerusalem was in the promises? what shall the Lord do, or what shall he not do, rather, to a nation so incorrigibly flagitious, so obliged, so warned, so shamelessly, so lawlessly wicked?