Zephaniah 2:15

Catholic Public Domain Version

This is the glorious city, dwelling in trust, which said in her heart, "I am and there is no one other than me." How has she become a lair for beasts in the desert? All who pass through her will hiss and wag their hand.

Cross References

Job 16:4

I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.

Job 27:23

He will clasp his hands over himself, and he will hiss at himself, while considering his situation.

Isaiah 22:2

Filled with clamor, a busy city, an exultant city: your dead have not been slain by the sword, nor did they die in battle.

Isaiah 32:11

Be stupefied, you opulent women! Be disturbed, O confident ones! Strip yourselves, and be confounded; gird yourselves at the waist.

Isaiah 32:14

For the house has been forsaken. The multitude of the city has been abandoned. A darkness and a covering have been placed over its dens, even unto eternity. It will be the gladness of wild donkeys and the pasture of flocks,

Isaiah 32:9

You opulent women, rise up and listen to my voice! O confident daughters, play close attention to my eloquence!

Isaiah 47:10

And you have trusted in your malice, and you have said: "There is no one who sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge, these have deceived you. And you have said in your heart: "I am, and beside me there is no other."

Jeremiah 18:16

And so their land has been given over to desolation and to perpetual hissing. Each one who passes by will be astonished and will shake his head.

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will set this city amid stupor and hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be stupefied, and they will hiss over all its wounds.

Jeremiah 50:13

By the wrath of the Lord, it will not be inhabited. Instead, it will be entirely desolate. Every one who passes by Babylon will be stupefied and will hiss over all her wounds.

Lamentations 1:1

ALEPH. O how a city once filled with people now sits alone! The Governess of the Gentiles has become like a widow. The Prince of the provinces has been placed under tribute.

Lamentations 2:1

ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.

Lamentations 2:15

SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?"

Ezekiel 27:36

The merchants of the peoples have hissed over you. You have been reduced to nothing, and you shall not be again, even forever."

Ezekiel 28:2

"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, 'I am God, and I sit in the chair of God, in the heart of the sea,' though you are a man, and not God, and because you have presented your heart as if it were the heart of God:

Ezekiel 28:9

So then, will you speak, in the presence of those who are destroying you, before the hand of those who are killing you, saying, 'I am God,' though you are a man, and not God?

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, you great dragon, who rests in the midst of your rivers. And you say: 'Mine is the river, and I have made myself.'

Daniel 4:27

And the king spoke out loud, saying, "Isn't this the great Babylon, which I have built, as the home of the kingdom, by the strength of my power and in the glory of my excellence?"

Nahum 3:19

Your destruction is not hidden; your wound is grievous. All who have heard of your fame have clenched their hands over you, because over whom has your wickedness not trampled continually?

Habakkuk 1:7

It is dreadful and terrible. From themselves, judgment and their burden will issue.

Matthew 27:39

But those passing by blasphemed him, shaking their heads,