Zephaniah 3:1-7

Lexham English Bible

3 Woe to you, O rebellious and defiled one!
    The oppressing city!
² She listens to no voice;
    she does not accept correction.
In Yahweh she does not trust;
    to her God she does not draw near.
³ Her officials in her midst are roaring lions;
    her judges are evening wolves;
        they leave nothing until the morning.
⁴ Her prophets are arrogant men of treachery;
    her priests have defiled that which is holy;
        they do violence to the law.
⁵ Yahweh is righteous in her midst;
    he does not do wickedness.
Morning by morning^[a] he renders his judgment;
    at dawn he does not fail,
but an evil one knows no shame.
⁶ “I have cut off nations;
    their strongholds are deserted.
I have laid waste their streets,
    so that none pass through.
Their cities have been destroyed
    and are without a man, without an inhabitant.
⁷ I have said, ‘Surely she will fear me;
    she will accept discipline.
Then her dwelling place will not be cut down,
    nor all that I have brought upon her.’
Surely they rise early;
    they make all their deeds corrupt.