Zephaniah 3:4 - Exposition.

Her prophets. These are the false prophets, who have no true mission from God (comp. Micah 2:11 ; Micah 3:5 ). Light ; either, frivolous or empty boasters. The word means properly, "boiling over," like water. Vulgate, vesani; Septuagint, πνευματοφόροι , which means, probably, not "inspired by an (evil) spirit," but "carried away by the wind," "light" (comp. Matthew 11:7 ). Treacherous persons; literally, men of treacheries, who uttered their own fancies as if they were commissioned by God, and so really opposed him whom they professed to represent ( Jeremiah 23:32 ). Her priests have polluted the sanctuary ( what is holy ) . Not the temple only, but all that has to do with God's service, worship, rites, sacrifices; they make no distinction between what is sacred and what is profane ( Ezekiel 22:26 ). They have done violence to the Law. Chiefly, doubtless, by distorting its meaning, and neither observing it themselves nor teaching others to keep it.