Zephaniah 2:15

A Conservative Version

This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

Cross References

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h

Nahum 3:19

There is no assuaging of thy hurt. Thy wound is grievous. All who hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee, for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

Isaiah 22:2

O thou that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town. Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor are they dead in battle.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will thou yet say before him who slays thee, I am God? But thou are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds thee.

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Lamentations 1:1

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

Matthew 27:39

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lays in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.

Ezekiel 27:36

The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee. Thou have become a horror, and thou shall nevermore have any being.

Lamentations 2:1

How LORD has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Isaiah 32:9

Rise up, ye women who are at ease. Hear my voice, ye careless daughters. Give ear to my speech.

Job 27:23

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, ye women who are at ease. Be troubled, ye careless ones. Strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon your loins.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace shall be forsaken. The populous city shall be deserted. The hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Isaiah 47:10

For thou have trusted in thy wickedness. Thou have said, None sees me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it has perverted thee. And thou have said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the wrath of LORD she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquility.

Habakkuk 1:7

They are fearful and dreadful. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.