Zephaniah 1:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD warns everyone who has sinned against him, “I'll strike you blind! Then your blood and your insides will gush out like vomit.

Cross References

Psalm 83:10

near Endor, and let their bodies rot.

Isaiah 29:10

The LORD has made you drowsy; he put you into a deep sleep and covered your head.

Isaiah 50:1

The LORD says, “Children, I didn't divorce your mother or sell you to pay debts; I divorced her and sold you because of your sins.

Jeremiah 10:18

The LORD said these troubles will lead to your capture, and he will throw you from this land like a stone from a sling.”

Jeremiah 15:3

I will punish you in four different ways: You will be killed in war and your bodies dragged off by dogs, your flesh will be eaten by birds, and your bones will be chewed on by wild animals.

Jeremiah 18:21

But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.

Jeremiah 2:17

It's all your own fault! You stopped following me, the LORD your God,

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own sins will punish you, because it was a bitter mistake for you to reject me without fear of punishment. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.

Jeremiah 3:25

We have rebelled against you just like our ancestors, and we are ashamed of our sins.”

Jeremiah 4:18

“People of Judah, your hearts will be in pain, but it's your own fault that you will be punished.”

Jeremiah 8:2

who loved and worshipped the sun, moon, and stars. These bones will be scattered and left lying on the ground like rubbish, where the sun and moon and stars can shine on them.

Lamentations 1:14

You have tied my sins around my neck, and they weigh so heavily that my strength is gone. You have put me in the power of enemies too strong for me.

Lamentations 1:18

The LORD was right, but I refused to obey him. Now I ask all of you to look at my sufferings— even my young people have been dragged away.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem's horrible sins have made the city a joke. Those who once admired her now hate her instead— she has been disgraced; she groans and turns away.

Lamentations 2:21

My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will find you guilty of being an unfaithful wife and a murderer, and in my fierce anger I will sentence you to death!

Ezekiel 24:7

The people of Jerusalem murdered innocent people in the city and didn't even try to cover-up the blood that flowed out on the hard ground.

Ezekiel 24:8

But I have seen that blood, and it cries out for me to take revenge.

Amos 4:10

I did terrible things to you, just as I did to Egypt— I killed your young men in war; I let your horses be stolen, and I made your camp stink with dead bodies. Even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Micah 7:13

Those nations will suffer disaster because of what they did.

Matthew 15:14

Stay away from those Pharisees! They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch.”

Romans 11:25

My friends, I don't want you Gentiles to be too proud of yourselves. So I will explain the mystery of what has happened to the people of Israel. Some of them have become stubborn, and they will stay like that until the complete number of you Gentiles has come in.

Romans 11:7

This means that only a chosen few of the people of Israel found what all of them were searching for. And the rest of them were stubborn,

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god who rules this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers. They cannot see the light, which is the good news about our glorious Christ, who shows what God is like.

2 Peter 1:9

But if you don't grow, you are like someone who is nearsighted or blind, and you have forgotten that your past sins are forgiven.

1 John 2:11

If we hate others, we are living and walking in the dark. We don't know where we are going, because we can't see in the dark.

Revelation 3:17

You claim to be rich and successful and to have everything you need. But you don't know how badly off you are. You are pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.