Zephaniah 3:2 “She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in…”

Zephaniah 3:2

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

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in the LORD. She didn’t draw near to her God.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

She heard not the voyce: she receiued not correction: she trusted not in the Lord: she drew not neere to her God.

Darby Translation

She hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she confided not in Jehovah; she drew not near her God.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

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Cross references

“obeyed”

Jeremiah 22:21 Jeremiah 7:23–28 Deuteronomy 28:15–68 Nehemiah 9:26 Zechariah 7:11–14

Jeremiah 22:21 · BSB

I 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.

Jeremiah 7:23–28 · BSB

but 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.

Deuteronomy 28:15–68 · BSB

If, 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:

Nehemiah 9:26 · BSB

But 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.

Zechariah 7:11–14 · BSB

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

“she received”

Jeremiah 5:3 Jeremiah 2:30 Isaiah 1:5 Ezekiel 24:13

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O 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.

Jeremiah 2:30 · BSB

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Isaiah 1:5 · BSB

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Ezekiel 24:13 · BSB

Because 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.

“correction”

Psalm 50:17 Proverbs 5:12 Jeremiah 32:33 Jeremiah 35:13 Jeremiah 35:17 Proverbs 1:7

Psalm 50:17 · BSB

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

Proverbs 5:12 · BSB

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Jeremiah 32:33 · BSB

They 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.

Jeremiah 35:13 · BSB

“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.

Jeremiah 35:17 · BSB

Therefore 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 b…

Proverbs 1:7 · BSB

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

“she trusted”

Psalm 78:22 Isaiah 30:1–3 Isaiah 31:1 Jeremiah 17:5 Jeremiah 17:6

Psalm 78:22 · BSB

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Isaiah 30:1–3 · BSB

“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.

Isaiah 31:1 · BSB

Woe 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.

Jeremiah 17:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

“she drew”

Psalm 10:4 Isaiah 29:13 Isaiah 43:22 Hebrews 10:22

Psalm 10:4 · BSB

In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Isaiah 29:13 · BSB

Therefore 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.

Isaiah 43:22 · BSB

But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.

Hebrews 10:22 · BSB

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Also

Psalm 73:28

Psalm 73:28 · BSB

But 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

3Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.

Read Zephaniah 3