Zephaniah 1:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Wail, O inhabitants of Maktesh! for all the merchants are destroyed, all who weigh out silver, done away with.

Cross References

Job 27:16

Though he heap up silver like dust and store away mounds of clothing,

Job 27:17

What he has stored the righteous shall wear, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Jeremiah 25:34

Howl, you shepherds, and wail! roll on the ground, leaders of the flock! The time for your slaughter has come; like choice rams you shall fall.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail: “The blazing anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.”

Ezekiel 21:12

When they ask you, “Why are you groaning?” you shall say: Because of what I heard! When it comes every heart shall melt, every hand fall helpless; every spirit will grow faint, and every knee run with water. See, it is coming, it is here!—oracle of the Lord God. Song of the Sword.

Hosea 9:6

When they flee from the devastation, Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their silver treasures, and thorns, their tents.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests! wail, ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! For the grain offering and the libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you wine drinkers, Over the new wine, taken away from your mouths.

Zephaniah 2:5

Ah! You who dwell by the seacoast, the nation of Cherethites, the word of the Lord is against you! O Canaan, land of the Philistines, I will leave you to perish without an inhabitant!

Zechariah 14:21

Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of hosts. All who come to sacrifice will take them and cook in them. No longer will there be merchants in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.

John 2:16

and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.