Zep 3:4 | NET2full | STEP | Her prophets are proud ; they are deceitful men . Her priests have defiled what is holy ; they have broken God’s laws .

‏ Zephaniah 3:4

4 Her prophets are proud; ^{▼▼sn Applied to prophets, the word פֹּחֲזִים (pokhazim, “proud”) probably refers to their audacity in passing off their own words as genuine prophecies from the Lord (see Jer 23:32).}
they are deceitful men.
Her priests have defiled what is holy; ^{▼▼tn Or “defiled the temple.”} ^{▼▼sn These priests defiled what is holy by not observing the proper distinctions between what is ritually clean and unclean (see Ezek 22:26).}
they have broken God’s laws. ^{▼▼tn Heb “they treated [the] law violently.”}