Zephaniah 1:17

New American Bible - revised edition

I will hem the people in till they walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; And their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their bowels like dung.

Cross References

Psalm 83:10

Deal with them as with Midian; as with Sisera and Jabin at the wadi Kishon,

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins you were sold, for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.

Jeremiah 10:18

For thus says the Lord: Now, at this time I will sling away the inhabitants of the land; I will hem them in, that they may be taken.

Jeremiah 15:3

Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them—oracle of the Lord—the sword to kill them; dogs to drag them off; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them.

Jeremiah 18:21

So now, give their children to famine, deliver them to the power of the sword. Let their wives be childless and widows; let their husbands die of pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 2:17

Has not forsaking the Lord, your God, done this to you?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness chastises you, your own infidelities punish you. Know then, and see, how evil and bitter is your forsaking the Lord, your God, And your showing no fear of me, oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord, our God, We and our ancestors, from our youth to this day; we did not listen to the voice of the Lord, our God.”

Jeremiah 4:18

Your conduct, your deeds, have done this to you; how bitter is this evil of yours, how it reaches to your very heart!

Jeremiah 8:2

and spread out before the sun, the moon, and the whole host of heaven, which they loved and served, which they followed, consulted, and worshiped. They will not be gathered up for burial, but will lie like dung upon the ground.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my rebellions is bound together, fastened by his hand. His yoke is upon my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into the grip of those I cannot resist.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is in the right; I had defied his command. Listen, all you peoples, and see my pain: My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously, therefore she has become a mockery; Those who honored her now demean her, for they saw her nakedness; She herself groans out loud, and turns away.

Lamentations 2:21

They lie on the ground in the streets, young and old alike; Both my young women and young men are cut down by the sword; You killed them on the day of your wrath, slaughtered without pity.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will inflict on you the sentence of adultery and murder; I will bring on you bloody wrath and jealous anger.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is still in her midst; on a bare rock she left it; She did not pour it on the ground to be covered with dirt.

Ezekiel 24:8

To arouse wrath, to exact vengeance, I have left her blood on bare rock not to be covered.

Amos 4:10

I sent upon you pestilence like that of Egypt; with the sword I killed your young men and your captured horses, and to your nostrils I brought the stench of your camps; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Micah 7:13

And the earth shall be a waste because of its inhabitants, as a result of their deeds.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides (of the blind). If a blind person leads a blind person, both will fall into a pit.”

Romans 11:25

I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not become wise [in] your own estimation: a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in,

Romans 11:7

What then? What Israel was seeking it did not attain, but the elect attained it; the rest were hardened,

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they may not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Peter 1:9

Anyone who lacks them is blind and shortsighted, forgetful of the cleansing of his past sins.

1 John 2:11

Whoever hates his brother is in darkness; he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. Members of the Community.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.