Zephaniah 3:4
“(Chapter 3, verses 1 onwards) Woe to the provoking and redeemed city: the dove did not hear the voice and did not receive discipline. It did not trust in the Lord and did not approach its God. Its princes are in its midst, like roaring lions. Its judges are wolves of the evening, they do not leave anything for the mor…”
Source: Septuagint
4Her prophets are light and scornful men: her priests profane the holy things, and sinfully transgress the law.
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2The dove hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord, and she drew not near to her God.
3Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morrow.
— Zephaniah 3:4 —
5But the just Lord is in the midst of her, and he will never do an unjust thing: morning by morning he will bring out his judgment to the light, and it is not hidden, and he knows not injustice by extortion, nor injustice in strife.
6I have brought down the proud with destruction; their corners are destroyed: I will make their ways completely waste, so that none shall go through: their cities are come to an end, by reason of no man living or dwelling in them.