Zephaniah 2:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore, as I live— oracle of the Lord of hosts— the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah: A field of weeds, a salt pit, a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, the survivors of my nation dispossess them.

Cross References

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall swoop down on the foothills of the Philistines to the west, together they shall plunder the people of the east; Edom and Moab shall be their possessions, and the Ammonites their subjects.

Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, but Moab will be trodden down as straw is trodden down in the mire.

Isaiah 49:18

Look about and see, they are all gathering and coming to you. As I live—oracle of the Lord— you shall don them as jewels, bedeck yourself like a bride.

Jeremiah 46:18

As I live, says the King whose name is Lord of hosts, Like Tabor above mountains, like Carmel above the sea, he comes.

Jeremiah 48:1

Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Ah, Nebo! it is ravaged; Kiriathaim is disgraced, captured; Disgraced and overthrown is the stronghold:

Jeremiah 49:1

Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: Has Israel no sons? none to inherit? Why has Milcom disinherited Gad, why are his people living in its cities?

Jeremiah 49:18

As when Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighbors were overthrown—oracle of the Lord—no one shall live in it, nor anyone settle there.

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor shall become a haunt for jackals, a wasteland forever, Where no one lives, no mortal stays. Against Elam.

Jeremiah 50:40

As happened when God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors—oracle of the Lord— No one shall dwell there, no mortal shall settle there.

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of the Ammonites, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, in order to extend their territory,

Amos 2:1

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king,

Zephaniah 2:14

In her midst flocks shall lie down, all the wild life of the hollows; The screech owl and the desert owl shall roost in her columns; The owl shall hoot from the window, the raven croak from the doorway.

Zephaniah 2:7

The seacoast shall belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; by the sea they shall pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening. For the Lord their God will take care of them, and bring about their restoration.

Zephaniah 3:13

the remnant of Israel. They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; Nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue; They shall pasture and lie down with none to disturb them.

Zechariah 2:13

Now I wave my hand over them, and they become plunder for their own servants. Thus you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.

Numbers 14:21

Yet, by my life and the Lord’s glory that fills the whole earth,

Romans 14:11

for it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, and every tongue shall give praise to God.”

Deuteronomy 29:22

all its soil burned out by sulphur and salt, unsown and unfruitful, without a blade of grass, like the catastrophe of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his furious wrath—

Deuteronomy 29:23

they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”