Zephaniah 3:1

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Woe to the rebellious and defiled city, the oppressive one!

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  • Jer 6:6 : 6 For this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Cut down trees and build a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
  • Ezek 23:30 : 30 These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.
  • Amos 3:9 : 9 Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt: "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her and the oppression among her people."
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your masters, 'Bring us something to drink!'
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • Lev 1:16 : 16 He shall remove its crop with its feathers and throw it beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are the planting of His delight. He expected justice but saw bloodshed; He expected righteousness but heard cries of distress.
  • Isa 30:12 : 12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: 'Because you have rejected this message and relied on oppression and deceit, leaning on them for support—'
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 We have rebelled and denied the LORD; we have turned away from following our God. We speak of oppression and revolt, conceiving lies and uttering them from the heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:1
    80%

    1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, packed with plunder, never without prey.

  • Zeph 3:2-4
    3 verses
    79%

    2She listens to no voice, she accepts no discipline; she does not trust in the LORD, nor does she draw near to her God.

    3Her officials are roaring lions in her midst; her judges are wolves of the evening, leaving nothing for the morning.

    4Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and have done violence to the law.

  • Lam 1:8-10
    3 verses
    78%

    8Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

    9Her uncleanness clings to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed."

    10The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.

  • Isa 3:26
    76%

    26The city gates will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

  • Isa 1:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness once dwelt in her, but now murderers.

    22Your silver has become dross, your wine is diluted with water.

  • Ezek 24:6
    74%

    6Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it and whose rust will not come off! Take its pieces out one by one; no lot will be cast for them.

  • Zeph 2:15
    74%

    15This is the jubilant city that dwelled securely and said in her heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' How she has become a desolation, a resting place for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

  • Jer 6:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6For this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Cut down trees and build a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.

    7As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard within her; continually before me, there are sickness and wounds.

  • Lam 1:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She has become like a widow, great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, now a slave.

    2Bitterly she weeps in the night, tears on her cheeks. There is no one to comfort her—all who loved her have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Confuse, O Lord, and divide their speech, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

    11Day and night they surround it on its walls, and trouble and wickedness are within it.

  • Ezek 16:35
    73%

    35Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

  • Hab 2:12
    73%

    12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town with injustice!

  • Lam 1:5
    73%

    5Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies prosper because the LORD has afflicted her for her many sins. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

  • Ezek 16:23
    72%

    23Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD, after all your wickedness.

  • Isa 3:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and actions are against the LORD, challenging His glorious presence.

    9The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • Mic 2:10
    72%

    10Get up and leave, for this is not your resting place! Because it is defiled, it brings destruction—a grievous destruction.

  • Jer 13:27
    72%

    27Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, your wicked acts of prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable behavior. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer will it be before you are made clean?

  • Lam 1:17
    72%

    17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • Jer 3:9
    72%

    9Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • Ezek 22:3
    72%

    3Then say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that sheds blood in her midst to bring her time closer, and makes idols to defile herself,

  • Prov 9:3
    72%

    3She has sent out her maidens; she calls out from the highest points of the city,

  • Amos 6:1
    72%

    1Woe to those who are complacent in Zion and trust in Mount Samaria, notable men among the foremost of nations, to whom the house of Israel comes.

  • Jer 4:14
    71%

    14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

  • Ezek 24:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12She has wearied herself with toil, and her heavy corrosion has not gone from her; her rust will be burned away in the fire.

    13Because of your unclean behavior and wickedness, though I tried to cleanse you, you would not be clean. You will not be cleansed again until I have satisfied my wrath upon you.

  • Rev 18:7
    71%

    7As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and grief, because in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and I will never see grief.'

  • Mic 1:9
    71%

    9For her wound is incurable; it has even reached Judah. It has reached the gates of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.

  • Ezek 5:6
    71%

    6But she has rebelled against My rules more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the surrounding countries. They have rejected My judgments and have not walked in My statutes.

  • Nah 3:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

    5Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts. I will lift up your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame.

    6I will throw filth on you, treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.

  • Mic 3:12
    71%

    12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • Rev 18:5
    71%

    5For her sins have piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her injustices.

  • Jer 50:15
    71%

    15Raise a shout against her on every side! She has surrendered; her towers have fallen, her walls are torn down. This is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done to others.

  • Ezek 24:9
    71%

    9Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I myself will make the fire great.

  • Ezek 22:24
    71%

    24Son of man, say to the land: You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.

  • Jer 3:2
    71%

    2Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

  • Isa 3:11
    70%

    11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; they will be repaid for their deeds.

  • Jer 19:8
    70%

    8I will make this city desolate and an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

  • Jer 11:15
    70%

    15What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

  • Rev 18:16
    70%

    16saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, dressed in fine linen, purple, and crimson, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls!'