Her princes within her are as roaring (A)lions: her judges are as (B)wolves in the evening, which [a]leave not the bones till the morrow.

Her prophets are light, and wicked persons: her priests have polluted the Sanctuary: they have wrested the Law.

The [b]just Lord is in the midst thereof: he will do none iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not: but the wicked will not learn to be ashamed.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 3:3 They are so greedy that they eat up bones and all.
  2. Zephaniah 3:5 The wicked thus boasted that God was ever among them, but the Prophet answereth that that cannot excuse their wickedness: for God will not bear with their sins: yet that he did patiently abide and sent his Prophets continually to call them to repentance, but he profited nothing.

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