Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
⛓ Read Zephaniah 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Zephaniah's officials as 'evening wolves that leave nothing for the morning' is a strong alternative locus for the savage-wolves-not-sparing image (v.29); reinforces the prophetic wolf-leader topos.
Medium confidence'Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves.' Reinforces the wolves-among-the-flock danger and specifically locates the threat in officials and judges — apt for 10:17-18, the councils, governors, and kings before whom disciples are dragged.
Medium confidenceZephaniah likewise depicts the city's officials as evening wolves leaving nothing till morning, a stock prophetic figure for rapacious leadership menacing the righteous. The recurrence of the wolf-against-flock trope makes it a plausible faint background to lambs among wolves.
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