Zephaniah 3:6

New English Translation

“I destroyed nations; their walled cities are in ruins. I turned their streets into ruins; no one passes through them. Their cities are desolate; no one lives there.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:26

This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth; my hand is ready to strike all the nations.”

Isaiah 37:36

The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!

Isaiah 6:11

I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said, “Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,

Jeremiah 9:12

I said, “Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? Who has a word from the Lord that can explain it? Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?”

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

Zephaniah 2:5

Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete, are as good as dead. The Lord has decreed your downfall, Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy everyone who lives there!”

Zechariah 7:14

‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

Matthew 23:38

Look, your house is left to you desolate!

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

1 Corinthians 10:6

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

Joshua 23:4

See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the nations I defeated.