the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Zephaniah 3:1
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Jerusalem, your people fought against God. They hurt other people, and you have been stained with sin.
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The oppressive city!
How terrible for the wicked, stubborn city of Jerusalem, which hurts its own people.
Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Woe (judgment is coming) to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city [Jerusalem]!
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Wo! thou citee, terrere to wraththe, and bouyt ayen a culuer.
Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
Too bad for that disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city!
Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
Woe to her who is filthy, defiled; woe to the tyrant city!
Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the oppressing citie.
It is bad for her who does not obey and is unclean, the city who makes it hard for the people!
Ah, soiled, defiled, oppressing city!
Woe to her that is filthie and polluted, to the robbing citie.
OH, the famous city, the saved city; the city of Jonah!
Alas for her that is rebellious, and polluted, the city that oppresseth!
Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove.
Woe to her that is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
Wo to that abhominable, filthy, and cruel citie.
This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how is she become desolate, a habitation of wild beasts! every one that passes through her shall hiss, and shake his hands.
Jerusalem is doomed, that corrupt, rebellious city that oppresses its own people.
Woe to the city that is rebellious and defiled,
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Woe to you, O rebellious and defiled one! The oppressing city!
Woe to her rebelling and being defiled, to the oppressing city!
Wo [to] the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!
Wo to the abhominable, fylthie and cruel cite:
Doom to the rebellious city, the home of oppressors—Sewer City! The city that wouldn't take advice, wouldn't accept correction, Wouldn't trust God , wouldn't even get close to her own god! Her very own leaders are rapacious lions, Her judges are rapacious timber wolves out every morning prowling for a fresh kill. Her prophets are out for what they can get. They're opportunists—you can't trust them. Her priests desecrate the Sanctuary. They use God's law as a weapon to maim and kill souls. Yet God remains righteous in her midst, untouched by the evil. He stays at it, day after day, meting out justice. At evening he's still at it, strong as ever. But evil men and women, without conscience and without shame, persist in evil.
The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished!
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, To the oppressing city!
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city!
Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,The oppressive city!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
her that is filthy: or, gluttonous, Heb. craw, Leviticus 1:16
to the: Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 59:13, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 22:17, Ezekiel 22:7, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 3:9, Amos 4:1, Micah 2:2, Zechariah 7:10, Malachi 3:5
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:6 - General Psalms 55:10 - mischief Isaiah 1:5 - the whole Isaiah 1:21 - it was full Isaiah 4:4 - washed away Isaiah 59:14 - General Jeremiah 3:5 - thou hast spoken Jeremiah 5:3 - thou hast stricken Jeremiah 9:13 - General Jeremiah 11:9 - General Jeremiah 13:27 - Woe Jeremiah 16:18 - they have defiled Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 32:32 - they Jeremiah 38:4 - the princes Jeremiah 51:5 - though Lamentations 1:5 - for Ezekiel 9:9 - The iniquity Ezekiel 16:23 - woe Ezekiel 16:36 - Because Ezekiel 19:2 - A lioness Ezekiel 33:29 - because Hosea 4:2 - swearing Hosea 5:2 - a rebuker Nahum 3:1 - to 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - defraud
Cross-References
Then the Lord God asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied. "That's why I ate it."
And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
In that day the Lord will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
During that time the devil came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread."
and said, "If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone.'"
"I will give it all to you," he said, "if you will kneel down and worship me."
"Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.
But I am not surprised! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Woe to her that is filthy, and polluted,.... Meaning the city of Jerusalem, and its inhabitants; not as before the Babylonish captivity, but after their return from it, under the second temple, as Abarbinel owns; and even as in the times before and at the coming of Christ, and the preaching of his apostles among them; as the whole series of the prophecy, and the connection of the several parts of it, show; and there are such plain intimations of the conversion of the Gentiles, and of such a happy state of the Jews, in which they shall see evil no more, as can agree with no other times than the times of the Gospel, both the beginning and latter part of them. The character of this city, and its inhabitants, is, that it was "filthy", and polluted with murders, adulteries, oppression, rapine, and other sins: our Lord often calls them a wicked and an adulterous generation; and yet they pretended to great purity of life and manners; and they were pure in their own eyes, though not washed from their filthiness; they took much pains to make clean the outside of the cup, but within were full of impurity, Matthew 23:25. In the margin it is, "woe to her that is gluttonous". The word is used for the craw or crop of a fowl, Leviticus 1:16 hence some render it t "woe to the craw"; to the city that is all craw, to which Jerusalem is compared for its devouring the wealth and substance of others. The Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time are said to devour widows' houses, Matthew 23:14 and this seems to be the sin with which they were defiled, and here charged with. Some think the word signifies one that is publicly, infamous; either made a public example of, or openly exposed, as sometimes filthy harlots are; or rather one "that has made herself infamous" u; by her sins and vices:
to the oppressing city! that oppressed the poor, the widow, and the fatherless. This may have respect to the inhabitants of Jerusalem stoning the prophets of the Lord sent unto them; to the discouragements they laid the followers of Christ under, by not suffering such to come to hear him that were inclined; threatening to cast them out of their synagogues if they professed him, which passed into a law; and to their killing the Lord of life and glory; and the persecution of his apostles, ministers, and people: see Matthew 23:13. Some render it, "to the city a dove" w; being like a silly dove without heart, as in Hosea 7:11. R. Azariah x thinks Jerusalem is so called because in its works it was like Babylon, which had for its military sign on its standard a dove; Hosea 7:11- : Hosea 7:11- : Hosea 7:11- : but the former sense is best.
t הוי מוראה "vae ingluviei", Junius Tremellius, Piscator. u ουας τη παραδειγματιζομηνη "vae huic quae infamatur", L'Empereur Not. in Mosis Kimchii οιδοποζια "ad scientiam", p. 174. so Drusius and Tarnovius. w חעיר היונה πολις η περιστερα, Sept. "civitas columba", V. L.; so Syr. Ar. Jarchi, and other Jewish interpreters. x Meor Enayin, c. 21. fol. 90. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The “woe,” having gone round the pagan nations, again circles round where it began, the “Jerusalem that killed the prophets and stoned those that were sent unto her” Matthew 23:37. Woe upon her, and joy to the holy Jerusalem, the “new Jerusalem Revelation 3:12; Revelation 21:10, the Jerusalem which is from above, the mother of us all,” close this prophecy; both in figure; destruction of her and the whole earth, in time, the emblem of the eternal death; and the love of God, the foretaste of endless joy in Him.
Woe - “Rebellious and polluted;” “thou oppressive city!” . The address is the more abrupt, and bursts more upon her, since the prophet does not name her. He uses as her proper name, not her own name, city of peace,” but “rebellious,” “polluted;” then he sums up in one, thou “oppressive city.”
Jerusalem’s sin is threefold, actively rebelling against God; then, inwardly defiled by sin; then cruel to man. So then, toward God, in herself, toward man, she is wholly turned to evil, not in passing acts, but in her abiding state:
(1) rebellious
(2) defiled
(3) oppressive
She is known only by what she has become, and what has been done for her in vain. She is rebellious, and so had had the law; defiled, and so had been cleansed; and therefore her state is the more hopeless.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER III
The prophet reproves Jerusalem, and all her guides and rulers,
for their obstinate perseverance in impiety, notwithstanding
all the warnings and corrections which they had received from
God, 1-7.
They are encouraged, however, after they shall have been
chastised for their idolatry, and cured of it, to look for
mercy and restoration, 8-13;
and exited to hymns of joy at the glorious prospect, 14-17.
After which the prophet concludes with large promises of
favour and prosperity in the days of the Messiah, 18-20.
We take this extensive view of the concluding verses of this
chapter, because an apostle has expressly assured us that in
EVERY prophetical book of the Old Testament Scriptures are
confined predictions relative to the Gospel dispensation.
See Acts 3:24.
NOTES ON CHAP. III
Verse Zephaniah 3:1. Wo to her that is filthy — This is a denunciation of Divine judgment against Jerusalem.
