Zephaniah 2:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

before it's too late. The LORD has set a time when his fierce anger will strike like a storm and sweep you away.

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often does he strike them like a storm that scatters straw?

Psalm 1:4

That isn't true of those who are evil, because they are like straw blown by the wind.

Psalm 2:12

Show respect to his son because if you don't, the LORD might become furious and suddenly destroy you. But he blesses and protects everyone who runs to him.

Psalm 50:22

You have ignored me! So pay close attention or I will tear you apart, and no one can help you.

Isaiah 17:13

But even if they roar like a fearsome flood, God will give the command to turn them back. They will be like dust, or like straw blowing across the hills in a storm.

Jeremiah 23:20

I won't calm down, until I have finished what I have decided to do. Some day you will understand exactly what I mean.

Jeremiah 4:4

With all your hearts, keep the agreement I made with you. But if you are stubborn and keep on sinning, my anger will burn like a fire that cannot be put out.

Lamentations 4:11

The LORD was so fiercely angry that he burnt the city of Zion to the ground.

Ezekiel 12:25

I will give them my message, and what I say will certainly happen. Warn those rebels that the time has come for them to be punished. I, the LORD, make this promise.

Hosea 13:3

And so, all of you will vanish like the mist or the dew of early morning, or husks of grain in the wind or smoke from a chimney.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand the heat of his furious anger? It flashes out like fire and shatters stones.

Zephaniah 1:18

Not even your silver or gold can save you on that day when I, the LORD, am angry. My anger will flare up like a furious fire scorching the earth and everyone on it.”

Zephaniah 3:8

The LORD said: Just wait for the day when I accuse you nations. I have decided on a day, when I will bring together every nation and kingdom and punish them all in my fiery anger. I will become furious and destroy the earth.

Matthew 24:35

The sky and the earth won't last for ever, but my words will.