Zephaniah 3:6

Good News Translation

The Lord says, “I have wiped out whole nations; I have destroyed their cities and left their walls and towers in ruins. The cities are deserted; the streets are empty—no one is left.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:26

This is my plan for the world, and my arm is stretched out to punish the nations.”

Isaiah 37:36

An angel of the Lord went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!

Isaiah 6:11

I asked, “How long will it be like this, Lord?” He answered, “Until the cities are ruined and empty—until the houses are uninhabited—until the land itself is a desolate wasteland.

Jeremiah 9:12

I asked, “Lord, why is the land devastated and dry as a desert, so that no one travels through it? Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom have you explained it so that they can tell others?”

Leviticus 26:31

I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices.

Zephaniah 2:5

You Philistines are doomed, you people who live along the coast. The Lord has passed sentence on you. He will destroy you, and not one of you will be left.

Zechariah 7:14

Like a storm I swept them away to live in foreign countries. This good land was left a desolate place, with no one living in it.”

Matthew 23:38

And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty.

1 Corinthians 10:11

All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,

Joshua 23:4

I have assigned as the possession of your tribes the land of the nations that are still left, as well as of all the nations that I have already conquered, from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.