Zephaniah 3:3 Cross References

Zephaniah 3:3

3: Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

Habakkuk 1:8

  1. Their horses are swifter than leopards. They are a fierce people, more fierce than wolves at dusk. Their horsemen race forward from distant places. Like eagles they swoop down to pounce on their prey.

Jeremiah 5:6

  1. So now a lion from the forest will attack them; a wolf from the desert will pounce on them. A leopard will lurk near their towns, tearing apart any who dare to venture out. For their rebellion is great, and their sins are many.

Ezekiel 22:25

  1. Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.
  2. Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
  3. Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!

Isaiah 1:23

  1. Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.

Job 4:8

  1. My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
  2. They perish by a breath from God. They vanish in a blast of his anger.
  3. Though they are fierce young lions, they will all be broken and destroyed.
  4. The fierce lion will starve, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.

Micah 3:9

  1. Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
  2. You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
  3. You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."

Proverbs 28:15

  1. A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor as a lion or bear attacking them.

Psalms 10:8

  1. They lurk in dark alleys, murdering the innocent who pass by. They are always searching for some helpless victim.
  2. Like lions they crouch silently, waiting to pounce on the helpless. Like hunters they capture their victims and drag them away in nets.
  3. The helpless are overwhelmed and collapse; they fall beneath the strength of the wicked.

Ezekiel 22:6

  1. "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.

Micah 3:1

  1. Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
  2. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  3. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
  4. Then you beg the LORD for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to listen? After all the evil you have done, he won't even look at you!

Jeremiah 22:17

  1. "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."
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