Zephaniah 3:1-7

21st Century King James Version

3 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 within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

⁴ Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

⁵ The just Lord is in the midst thereof; He will not do iniquity: Every morning doth He bring His judgment to light, He faileth not. But the unjust knoweth no shame.

⁶ “I have cut off the nations; their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is no inhabitant.

⁷ I said, ‘Surely thou wilt fear Me, thou wilt receive instruction’—so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them; but they rose early and corrupted all their doings.