1. Zephaniah 3:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

How does the image of beasts within Jerusalem recall the prophecy regarding Assyria?

Zephaniah 3:3 (ESV)

3 Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

Habakkuk 1:8 had mentioned that beasts occupied Nineveh, in order to signify “the absence of human occupants; in Jerusalem the beasts have already taken over! The leaders of the people were misleaders."1

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