Zephaniah 1:17

Modern English Version

I will bring distress on men, so that they will walk like blind men. Because they have sinned against the Lord, their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

Cross References

Psalm 83:10

who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the certificate of divorce by which I sent your mother away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Jeremiah 10:18

For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them that they may be found.

Jeremiah 15:3

I will appoint over them four kinds of disaster, says the Lord: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, the birds of the heaven, the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, deliver up their children to the famine and pour out their blood by the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children and become widows and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God when He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter for you to have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 3:25

We lie down in our shame, and our humiliation covers us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 4:18

Your way and your deeds have procured these things to you. This is your wickedness. How bitter it is! How it touches your heart!”

Jeremiah 8:2

And they will spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions was bound; by His hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck. He made my strength fail; the Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all peoples, and see my sorrow; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously; therefore she has become vile. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself sighs and turns away.

Lamentations 2:21

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have killed them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered and not pitied.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will judge you as women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged. And I will bring on you the blood of fury and jealousy.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in her midst; she set it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

Ezekiel 24:8

That it may cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it may not be covered.

Amos 4:10

Pestilence like that of Egypt I sent against you. By the sword I killed your young men; your horses were taken captive. The stench of your camps I brought up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

Micah 7:13

The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, from the fruit of their deeds.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.”

Romans 11:25

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation, for a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not obtained what it was seeking. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

2 Peter 1:9

For he who lacks these things is blind and nearsighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his past sins.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, ‘I am rich, and have stored up goods, and have need of nothing,’ yet do not realize that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.