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Zephaniah 3:1

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WOE to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
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  1. Jeremiah 6:6Rank 1 from verse 1
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    6¶ For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

  2. Isaiah 30:12Rank 2 from verse 1
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    12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

  3. Isaiah 59:13Rank 3 from verse 1
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    13In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  4. Ezekiel 22:7Rank 4 from verse 1
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    7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

  5. Malachi 3:5Rank 5 from verse 1
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    5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

  6. Zechariah 7:10Rank 6 from verse 1
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    10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

  7. Isaiah 5:7Rank 7 from verse 1
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    7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

  8. Jeremiah 22:17Rank 8 from verse 1
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    17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  9. Leviticus 1:16Rank 9 from verse 1
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    16And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:

  10. Micah 2:2Rank 10 from verse 1
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    2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  11. Amos 3:9Rank 11 from verse 1
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    9¶ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

  12. Amos 4:1Rank 12 from verse 1
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    1HEAR this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

  13. Ezekiel 22:29Rank 13 from verse 1
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    29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  14. Ezekiel 23:30Rank 14 from verse 1
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    30I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

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Zephaniah 3:1

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filthy

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Sense 1: Dirty, foul, or unclean. Sense 2: Morally polluted or defiled. Sense 3: Obtained by base or dishonest means.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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polluted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of pollute, meaning to defile, make unclean, or profane.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

oppressing

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of oppress, meaning to burden, crush, or treat with unjust severity or hardship.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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2:15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

3:1WOE to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

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3:2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.

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