3Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.


In Context

1 Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

2 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.

3 Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

4 Her prophets unstable — men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.

5 Jehovah is righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.

Zephaniah 3:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Her officials are roaring lions, her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that leave nothing for the morning.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.