Zephaniah 3:1

1 Woe to the city of oppressors,

rebellious and defiled!

1 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,

the oppressing city!

1 What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem,

the city of violence and crime!

1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,

To the oppressing city!

1 How terrible for the wicked, stubborn city of Jerusalem,

which hurts its own people.

1 Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!

1 Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!

1 How horrible it will be for that rebellious 

and corrupt place, the city of violence. 

1 Woe to the city that is rebellious and defiled,

the oppressive city!

1 Woe, soiled, defiled,

oppressing city!

1 Woe to you, O rebellious and defiled one!

The oppressing city!

1 How terrible it will be for Jerusalem!

Its people crush others.

They refuse to obey the Lord.

They are “unclean.”

1 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,

The tyrannical city!