Zephaniah 3:5

Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data

"The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame."

Word-by-Word Analysis

The just

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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is in the

תָּוֶךְ

tâvek

H8432

a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre

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חָלַל

châlal

H2490

properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...

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he will not do

עָוֺן

ʻâvôn

H5771

perversity, i.e. (moral) evil

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every

בֹּקֶר

bôqer

H1242

properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning

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doth he

בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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his

מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ

H4941

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...

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to

אוֹר

ʼôwr

H216

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

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he

גָּעַל

gâʻal

H1602

to detest; by implication, to reject

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not but the

עֶוֶל

ʻevel

H5766

(moral) evil

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יָדַע

yâdaʻ

H3045

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...

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no

כְּלִמָּה

kᵉlimmâh

H3639

disgrace

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Key Terms in This Verse

unjust H5766

עֶוֶל ʻevel

(moral) evil

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faileth H1602

גָּעַל gâʻal

to detest; by implication, to reject

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shame H3639

כְּלִמָּה kᵉlimmâh

disgrace

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knoweth H3045

יָדַע yâdaʻ

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, in...

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morning H1242

בֹּקֶר bôqer

properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning

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light H216

אוֹר ʼôwr

illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)

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iniquity H5771

עָוֺן ʻâvôn

perversity, i.e. (moral) evil

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judgment H4941

מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the pla...

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midst H8432

תָּוֶךְ tâvek

a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre

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bring H935

בּוֹא bôwʼ

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:4 cross-reference

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Lamentations 3:23 cross-reference

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Psalm 145:17 cross-reference

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Zephaniah 3:15 cross-reference

The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

Deuteronomy 23:14 cross-reference

For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away ...

Isaiah 28:19 cross-reference

From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Zephaniah 3:17 cross-reference

The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

Isaiah 12:6 cross-reference

Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

1 Peter 1:17 cross-reference

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

Psalm 37:6 cross-reference

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Jeremiah 8:12 cross-reference

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they...

Zechariah 2:5 cross-reference

For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

Romans 3:26 cross-reference

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Jeremiah 6:15 cross-reference

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they s...

Job 34:10 cross-reference

Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Micah 7:9 cross-reference

I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousn...

Isaiah 50:4 cross-reference

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned...

Luke 12:2 cross-reference

For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

Jeremiah 3:3 cross-reference

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Ezekiel 48:35 cross-reference

It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

Genesis 18:25 cross-reference

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do rig...

Jeremiah 21:12 cross-reference

O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench i...

Romans 2:5 cross-reference

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Isaiah 33:2 cross-reference

O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Zephaniah 2:1 cross-reference

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

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