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title: Zephaniah 3
slug: kjv/zephaniah-3
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:40:35.299Z
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**1 **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 none 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.

**8 **Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination *is* to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, *even* all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

**9 **For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

**10 **From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, *even* the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

**11 **In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

**12 **I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

**13 **The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make *them* afraid.

**14 **Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

**15 **The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, *even* the LORD, *is* in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

**16 **In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: *and to* Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.

**17 **The LORD thy God in the midst of thee *is* mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

**18 **I will gather *them that are* sorrowful for the solemn assembly, *who* are of thee, *to whom* the reproach of it *was* a burden.

**19 **Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.

**20 **At that time will I bring you *again*, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.