Zephaniah 2:2

Good News Translation (US Version)

before you are driven away like chaff blown by the wind, before the burning anger of the Lord comes upon you, before the day when he shows his fury.

Cross References

Nahum 1:6

When he is angry, who can survive? Who can survive his terrible fury? He pours out his flaming anger; rocks crumble to dust before him.

Hosea 13:3

And so these people will disappear like morning mist, like the dew that vanishes early in the day. They will be like chaff which the wind blows from the threshing place, like smoke from a chimney.

Lamentations 4:11

The Lord turned loose the full force of his fury; he lit a fire in Zion that burned it to the ground.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations advance like rushing waves, but God reprimands them and they retreat, driven away like dust on a mountainside, like straw in a whirlwind.

Psalm 1:4

But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

Zephaniah 3:8

“Just wait,” the Lord says. “Wait for the day when I rise to accuse the nations. I have made up my mind to gather nations and kingdoms in order to let them feel the force of my anger. The whole earth will be destroyed by the fire of my fury.

Zephaniah 1:18

On the day when the Lord shows his fury, not even all their silver and gold will save them. The whole earth will be destroyed by the fire of his anger. He will put an end—a sudden end—to everyone who lives on earth.

Job 21:18

and blow them away like straw in the wind, or like dust carried away in a storm?

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Ezekiel 12:25

I, the Lord, will speak to them, and what I say will be done. There will be no more delay. In your own lifetime, you rebels, I will do what I have warned you I would do. I have spoken,” says the Sovereign Lord.

Jeremiah 23:20

and it will not end until he has done everything he intends to do. In days to come his people will understand this clearly.”

Psalm 50:22

“Listen to this, you that ignore me, or I will destroy you, and there will be no one to save you.

Psalm 2:12

and bow down to him; or else his anger will be quickly aroused, and you will suddenly die. Happy are all who go to him for protection.

Jeremiah 4:4

Keep your covenant with me, your Lord, and dedicate yourselves to me, you people of Judah and Jerusalem. If you don't, my anger will burn like fire because of the evil things you have done. It will burn, and there will be no one to put it out.”