Zephaniah 3:5
Zephaniah chapter 3 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his justice to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his justice to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
Context
v.4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
v.5This passage
v.6I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Job 8:3
Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
- Zephaniah 2:1
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation that hath no shame;
- Isaiah 45:21
Declare ye, and bring it forth; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath showed this from ancient time? who hath declared it of old? have not I, Jehovah? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none besides me.
- Psalms 145:17
Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, And gracious in all his works.
- Romans 2:5
but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;