Zephaniah 2:15

God's Word

Is this the arrogant city? Is this the city that used to live securely, the city that used to think to itself, “I’m the only one, and no one else exists but me”? What a wasteland it is now, a resting place for wild animals! All who pass by it will hiss and make an obscene gesture.

Cross References

Job 16:4

I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.

Job 27:23

It claps its hands over him. It whistles at him from his own place.

Isaiah 22:2

You are a city filled with shouting, a town filled with noise and excitement. Your people weren’t killed with swords. Your dead didn’t die in battle.

Isaiah 32:11

Shudder, you pampered women. Tremble, you overconfident women. Take off your clothes, walk around naked, and wear sackcloth around your waists.

Isaiah 32:14

Palaces will be deserted. Noisy cities will be abandoned. Fortresses and watchtowers will become permanent caves. They will be a delight for wild donkeys and pastures for flocks

Isaiah 32:9

Get up, and listen to me, you pampered women. Hear what I say, you overconfident daughters.

Isaiah 47:10

You feel safe in your wickedness and say, “No one can see me.” Your wisdom and knowledge have led you astray, so you say to yourself, “I’m the only one, and there’s no one else.”

Jeremiah 18:16

Their land will become desolate and something to be hissed at forever. Everyone who will pass by it will be stunned and shake his head.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will devastate this city. It will become something to hiss at. Everyone who goes by it will be stunned and hiss with contempt at all the disasters that happen to it.

Jeremiah 50:13

No one will live in Babylon because of the Lord’s anger. It will be completely abandoned. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and hiss at all its wounds.

Lamentations 1:1

“Look how deserted Jerusalem is! Once the city was crowded with people. Once it was important among the nations. Now it is a widow. Once it was a princess among the provinces. Now it does forced labor.

Lamentations 2:1

“Look how the Lord has covered the people of Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has thrown down Israel’s beauty from heaven to earth. He didn’t ⌞even⌟ remember his footstool on the day of his anger.

Lamentations 2:15

Everyone who walks along the road shakes a fist at you. They hiss and shake their heads at Jerusalem’s people: ‘Is this the city they used to call absolutely beautiful, the joy of the whole world?’

Ezekiel 27:36

The merchants among the nations laugh at you. You have come to a terrible end, and you will never exist again.’ ”

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: In your arrogance you say, “I’m a god. I sit on God’s throne in the sea.” But you’re only human and not a god, although you think you are a god.

Ezekiel 28:9

You will no longer say that you are a god when you face those who kill you. You will be a human, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you.

Ezekiel 29:3

Tell him, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: I’m against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt. You are like a monster crocodile lying in the Nile River. You say, “The Nile River is mine. I made it for myself.”

Daniel 4:27

“That is why, Your Majesty, my best advice is that you stop sinning, and do what is right. Stop committing the same errors, and have pity on the poor. Maybe you can prolong your prosperity.”

Nahum 3:19

There is no relief for your collapse. Your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you will clap their hands. Who hasn’t suffered from your endless evil?

Habakkuk 1:7

They will be terrifying and fearsome. They will carry out their own kind of justice and honor.

Matthew 27:39

Those who passed by insulted him. They shook their heads