Zephaniah Chapter 3 verse 4 Holy Bible
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
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Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
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Her prophets are vain-glorious, treacherous persons; her priests profane the sanctuary, they do violence to the law.
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Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
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Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
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Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Her prophets. These are the false prophets, who have no true mission from God (comp. Micah 2:11; Micah 3:5). Light; either, frivolous or empty boasters. The word means properly, "boiling over," like water. Vulgate, vesani; Septuagint, πνευματοφόροι, which means, probably, not "inspired by an (evil) spirit," but "carried away by the wind," "light" (comp. Matthew 11:7). Treacherous persons; literally, men of treacheries, who uttered their own fancies as if they were commissioned by God, and so really opposed him whom they professed to represent (Jeremiah 23:32). Her priests have polluted the sanctuary (what is holy). Not the temple only, but all that has to do with God's service, worship, rites, sacrifices; they make no distinction between what is sacred and what is profane (Ezekiel 22:26). They have done violence to the Law. Chiefly, doubtless, by distorting its meaning, and neither observing it themselves nor teaching others to keep it.
