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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Zep 3:3 — Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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Job 4:8 |
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. |
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Job 4:9 |
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. |
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Job 4:10 |
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
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Job 4:11 |
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. |
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Psa 10:8 |
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. |
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Psa 10:9 |
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. |
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Psa 10:10 |
He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. |
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Pro 28:15 |
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people. |
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Isa 1:23 |
Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. |
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Jer 22:17 |
But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it]. |
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Eze 22:6 |
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. |
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Eze 22:25 |
[There is] a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. |
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Eze 22:26 |
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed [difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. |
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Eze 22:27 |
Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. |
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Mic 3:1 |
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment? |
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Mic 3:2 |
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
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Mic 3:3 |
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
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Mic 3:4 |
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. |
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Mic 3:9 |
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. |
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Mic 3:10 |
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. |
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Mic 3:11 |
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. |
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Jer 5:6 |
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased. |
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Hab 1:8 |
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Zephaniah 3:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Zep/3/3.html>.
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