Zephaniah 1:6

New International Version

those who turn back from following the Lord and neither seek the Lord nor inquire of him.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Isaiah 1:4

Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have rejected me,” declares the Lord. “You keep on backsliding. So I will reach out and destroy you; I am tired of holding back.

Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you in the way?

Hosea 11:7

My people are determined to turn from me. Even though they call me God Most High, I will by no means exalt them.

Jeremiah 3:10

In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord.

Isaiah 9:13

But the people have not returned to him who struck them, nor have they sought the Lord Almighty.

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

Ezekiel 3:20

“Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn to crooked ways the Lord will banish with the evildoers. Peace be on Israel.

Psalm 10:4

In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

Hosea 7:7

All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.

Romans 3:11

there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.

Isaiah 43:22

“Yet you have not called on me, Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for me, Israel.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland.

Hosea 7:10

Israel’s arrogance testifies against him, but despite all this he does not return to the Lord his God or search for him.

Joshua 23:12

“But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,

2 Samuel 22:22

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I am not guilty of turning from my God.

2 Chronicles 15:13

All who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.

Isaiah 9:12

Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Zephaniah 3:2

She obeys no one, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the Lord, she does not draw near to her God.