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Zephaniah 3:1

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

KJV

Væ provocatrix, et redempta civitas, columba !

Vulgate

Αὕτη ἡ πόλις ἡ φαυλίστρια, ἡ κατοικοῦσα ἐπ’ ἐλπίδι, ἡ λέγουσα ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτῆς Ἐγώ εἰμι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν μετ’ ἐμὲ ἔτι. πῶς ἐγενήθη εἰς ἀφανισμόν, νομὴ θηρίων· πᾶς ὁ διαπορευόμενος δι’ αὐτῆς συριεῖ καὶ κινήσει τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ.

LXX

Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!

ASV

ה֥וֹי מֹרְאָ֖ה וְ/נִגְאָלָ֑ה הָ/עִ֖יר הַ/יּוֹנָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ה֣וֹי
hvy
particle · 51×
הוֹנָ֔ה
hvnh
verb · 19×
יִתְגָּאַ֛ל
ytg'l
verb · 11×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×
תַּמְרִ֑יא
tmry'
verb · 2×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 4:6 — That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
  • Ezek 22:7 — In thee have they set light by 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.
  • Isa 1:5 — Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Isa 1:21 — How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Isa 5:7 — For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
  • Isa 30:12 — Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
  • Isa 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Isa 59:14 — And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
  • Jer 5:3 — O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder t
  • Jer 6:6 — For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
  • Jer 11:9 — And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • Jer 16:18 — And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
  • Jer 22:17 — But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • Lev 1:16 — And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
  • Mal 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his
  • Mic 2:2 — And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Nah 3:1 — Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
  • Zech 7:10 — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
  • Zech 7:10 — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.