Zephaniah 3:2

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“She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.”

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BSBPD

“She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“She hath not hearkened to the voice, She hath not accepted instruction, In Jehovah she hath not trusted, Unto her God she hath not drawn near.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Zephaniah 3:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  2. Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
  3. Psalms 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
  4. Psalms 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
  5. Psalms 73:28But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.
  6. Psalms 78:22because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
  7. Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
  8. Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
  9. Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
  10. Isaiah 9:12Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
  11. Isaiah 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
  12. Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
  13. Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
  14. Isaiah 43:22But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
  15. Jeremiah 2:30“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
  16. Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
  17. Jeremiah 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  18. Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 22:21I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
  20. Jeremiah 32:33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
  21. Jeremiah 35:13“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.
  22. Jeremiah 35:17Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
  23. Ezekiel 24:13Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
  24. Zephaniah 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

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