Zephaniah 3:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

Yahweh, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, but the unjust know no shame.

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  • Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
  • Zeph 3:15 : 15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
  • Zeph 3:17 : 17 Yahweh, your God, is in the midst of you, a mighty one who 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, that he should do wickedness, From the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
  • Deut 23:14 : 14 for Yahweh 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 may not see an 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 He will make your righteousness go forth as the light, And your justice as the noon day sun.
  • Ps 99:3-4 : 3 Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy! 4 The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
  • Ps 145:17 : 17 Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, And gracious in all his works.
  • Eccl 3:16-17 : 16 Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. 17 I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!"
  • Isa 28:19 : 19 As often as it passes though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nothing but terror to understand the message.
  • Isa 33:2 : 2 Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
  • Isa 42:3-4 : 3 A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth. 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.
  • Isa 45:21 : 21 Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
  • Jer 6:15 : 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, 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 Yahweh.
  • Jer 8:12 : 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 21:12 : 12 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
  • Ezek 48:35 : 35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it tell forturnes for money: Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.
  • Mic 7:9 : 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, Because I have sinned against him, Until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.
  • Hab 1:3 : 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
  • Zeph 2:1 : 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
  • Job 34:17-19 : 17 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?-- 18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' Or to nobles, 'Wicked!' 19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Luke 12:2 : 2 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Rom 3:26 : 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him 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. Then each man will get his praise from God.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as strangers here in reverent fear:

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  • Isa 59:14-15
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    14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

    15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.

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    10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

    11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

  • 1 Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

  • 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

  • 6 He will make your righteousness go forth as the light, And your justice as the noon day sun.

  • 3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • 12 House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

  • 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it tell forturnes for money: Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.

  • 1 Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

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    8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, And to my integrity that is in me.

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    28 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.

    29 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil:

  • 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

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    8 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

  • 21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.

  • 7 You who turn justice to wormwood, And cast down righteousness to the earth:

  • 11 God is a righteous judge, Yes, a God who has indignation every day.

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    13 Yahweh stands up to contend, And stands to judge the peoples.

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  • 10 "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."

  • 14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • 23 Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, But deny justice for the innocent!

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    5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

    6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked shall perish.

  • 6 Yahweh executes righteous acts, And justice for all who are oppressed.

  • 7 The way of the just is uprightness: you that are upright do direct the path of the just.

  • 12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."

  • 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

  • 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, And the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

  • 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

  • 12 For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.

  • 5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • 15 To show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, And there is no unrighteousness in him.

  • 3 Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

  • 5 God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

  • 20 But, Yahweh of Hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

  • 13 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

  • 10 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.

  • 5 Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

  • 27 A dishonest man detests the righteous, And the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

  • 7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

  • 9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • 17 Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow."

  • 5 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.