Zephaniah 3:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

The just LORD is in the midst of her; he will not do wrong: every morning he brings his judgment to light, he fails not; but the unjust know no shame.

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  • Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
  • Zeph 3:15 : 15 The LORD has taken away your judgments, he has cast out your enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of you: you shall see evil no more.
  • Zeph 3:17 : 17 The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
  • Job 34:10 : 10 Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to commit iniquity.
  • Deut 23:14 : 14 For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that He see no unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
  • Lam 3:23 : 23 They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
  • Ps 37:6 : 6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
  • Ps 99:3-4 : 3 Let them praise your great and awesome name; for it is holy. 4 The king's strength also loves justice; you establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
  • Ps 145:17 : 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
  • Eccl 3:16-17 : 16 Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. 17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry out and shout, inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of you.
  • Isa 28:19 : 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
  • Isa 33:2 : 2 O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
  • Isa 42:3-4 : 3 A bruised reed he shall not break, and the smoking flax he shall not quench: he shall bring forth justice unto truth. 4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has set justice in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law.
  • Isa 45:21 : 21 Declare and bring them near; indeed, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient times? who has told it from that time? have not I, the LORD? and there is no other God besides Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as the learned.
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
  • Jer 6:15 : 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore, they shall fall among those that fall: when I punish them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 21:12 : 12 O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury goes out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
  • Ezek 48:35 : 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Mic 7:9 : 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
  • Hab 1:3 : 3 Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention.
  • Zeph 2:1 : 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired;
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice?
  • Job 34:17-19 : 17 Shall even he who hates justice govern? And will you condemn Him who is most just? 18 Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? And to princes, You are ungodly? 19 How much less to Him who does not respect the persons of princes nor regard the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 For I, says the LORD, will be a wall of fire around her, and will be the glory in her midst.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: he is just, and endowed with salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
  • Luke 12:2 : 2 For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor hidden that shall not be known.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 3:26 : 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts; and then each person will receive praise from God.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in reverent fear;

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