Zephaniah 1:14

New English Translation

The Lord’s great day of judgment is almost here; it is approaching very rapidly! There will be a bitter sound on the Lord’s day of judgment; at that time warriors will cry out in battle.

Cross References

Isaiah 15:4

The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz. For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress; their courage wavers.

Isaiah 33:7

Look, ambassadors cry out in the streets; messengers sent to make peace weep bitterly.

Isaiah 66:6

The sound of battle comes from the city; the sound comes from the temple! It is the sound of the Lord paying back his enemies.

Isaiah 8:22

When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

Jeremiah 25:36

Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders. Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks. They are wailing because the Lord is about to destroy their lands.

Jeremiah 30:7

Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.

Jeremiah 46:5

What do I see?” says the Lord. “The soldiers are terrified. They are retreating. They have been defeated. They are overcome with terror; they desert quickly without looking back.

Jeremiah 48:41

Her towns will be captured. Her fortresses will be taken. At that time the soldiers of Moab will be frightened like a woman in labor.

Ezekiel 12:23

Therefore tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: I hereby end this proverb; they will not recite it in Israel any longer.’ But say to them, ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled.

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.

Ezekiel 7:16

Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

Joel 1:15

How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

Joel 2:1

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the Lord is about to come. Indeed, it is near!

Joel 2:11

The voice of the Lord thunders as he leads his army. Indeed, his warriors are innumerable; Surely his command is carried out! Yes, the day of the Lord is awesome and very terrifying – who can survive it?

Joel 2:31

The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the Lord comes – that great and terrible day!

Joel 3:14

Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision!

Joel 3:16

The Lord roars from Zion; from Jerusalem his voice bellows out. The heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for his people; he is a stronghold for the citizens of Israel.

Amos 8:2

He said, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins.

Zephaniah 1:10

On that day,” says the Lord, “a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city’s newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.

Zephaniah 1:7

Be silent before the Lord God, for the Lord’s day of judgment is almost here. The Lord has prepared a sacrificial meal; he has ritually purified his guests.

Malachi 4:5

Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrives.

Acts 2:20

The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Philippians 4:5

Let everyone see your gentleness. The Lord is near!

1 Thessalonians 4:16

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Hebrews 12:26

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

James 5:9

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.