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Zephaniah 3:4  New English Translation

4 Her prophets are proud;[a]
they are deceitful men.
Her priests have defiled what is holy;[b]
they have broken God’s laws.[c]

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  1. Zephaniah 3:4 sn Applied to prophets, the word פֹּחֲזִים (pokhazim, “proud”) probably refers to their audacity in passing off their own words as genuine prophecies from the Lord (see Jer 23:32).
  2. Zephaniah 3:4 tn Or “defiled the temple.”sn These priests defiled what is holy by not observing the proper distinctions between what is ritually clean and unclean (see Ezek 22:26).
  3. Zephaniah 3:4 tn Heb “they treated [the] law violently.”
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