Zephaniah 1:17

God's Word

“I will bring such distress on humans that they will walk like they are blind, because they have sinned against the Lord.” Their blood will be poured out like dust and their intestines like manure.

Cross References

Psalm 83:10

They were destroyed at Endor. They became manure to fertilize the ground.

Isaiah 29:10

The Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He will shut your eyes. (Your eyes are the prophets.) He will cover your heads. (Your heads are the seers.)

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the Lord says: Where are your mother’s divorce papers? Did I give her any to get rid of her? To which of my creditors did I sell you? You were sold because of your sins. I got rid of your mother because of your rebellion.

Jeremiah 10:18

This is what the Lord says: I am going to throw out those who live in the land at this time and cause trouble for them so that they will feel it.

Jeremiah 15:3

“I will devise four ways to punish them,” declares the Lord. “I will send swords to kill, dogs to drag away, and birds and animals to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 18:21

Now, hand their children over to famine. Pour out their ⌞blood⌟ by using your sword. Then their wives will become childless widows. Their husbands will be put to death. Their young men will be struck down in battle.

Jeremiah 2:17

You have brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God when he led you on his way.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, and your unfaithful ways will punish you. You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you if you abandon the Lord your God and do not fear me,” declares the Almighty Lord of Armies.

Jeremiah 3:25

We must lie down in our shame and be covered by our disgrace. Ever since we were young, we and our ancestors have sinned against the Lord our God. We haven’t obeyed the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 4:18

“You brought this on yourself. This is your punishment. It is bitter. It breaks your heart.”

Jeremiah 8:2

They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon, and all the stars in the sky. These are the things that they had loved, served, gone after, sought, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered or buried, but they will become manure on the ground.

Lamentations 1:14

My rebellious acts are a heavy burden for me. They were tied together by God’s own hands. They were tied around my neck. He has weakened me ⌞with them⌟. The Lord has handed me over to people I cannot oppose.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is right in what he did, because I rebelled against his word. Please listen, all you people, and look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned so much that it has become a filthy thing. Everyone who used to honor it now despises it. They’ve seen it naked. Jerusalem groans and turns away.

Lamentations 2:21

Young and old lie on the ground in the streets. My young women and men are cut down by swords. You killed them on the day of your anger. You slaughtered them without any pity.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will punish you the same way that those who are guilty of prostitution and murder are punished. I will give you the death penalty in my fury and burning anger.

Ezekiel 24:7

Blood is still in that city. The blood was poured on a bare rock. It wasn’t poured on the ground where dust would cover it.

Ezekiel 24:8

In order to stir up my fury so that I would pay that city back, I put the blood of its victims on a bare rock. Now that blood can’t be covered.

Amos 4:10

I sent plagues on you as I did to Egypt. With swords I killed your best young men along with your captured horses. I made the stench from your camps fill your noses. And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.

Micah 7:13

The earth will become a wasteland for those who live on it because of what the people living there have done.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone! They are blind leaders. When one blind person leads another, both will fall into the same pit.”

Romans 11:25

Brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery so that you won’t become arrogant. The minds of some Israelites have become closed until all of God’s non-Jewish people are included.

Romans 11:7

So what does all this mean? It means that Israel has never achieved what it has been striving for. However, those whom God has chosen have achieved it. The minds of the rest of Israel were closed,

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. As a result, they don’t see the light of the Good News about Christ’s glory. It is Christ who is God’s image.

2 Peter 1:9

If these qualities aren’t present in your life, you’re shortsighted and have forgotten that you were cleansed from your past sins.

1 John 2:11

Those who hate other believers are in the dark and live in the dark. They don’t know where they’re going, because they can’t see in the dark.

Revelation 3:17

You say, ‘I’m rich. I’m wealthy. I don’t need anything.’ Yet, you do not realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.