Zephaniah 3:8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Therefore wait for me, says the Lord, for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my passion all the earth shall be consumed.

Cross References

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Psalm 123:2

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until he has mercy upon us.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Psalm 37:34

Wait for the Lord, and keep to his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on the destruction of the wicked.

Psalm 37:7

Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him; do not fret over those who prosper in their way, over those who carry out evil devices.

Psalm 62:1

For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.

Psalm 62:5

For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him.

Psalm 79:5

How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 79:6

Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name.

Proverbs 20:22

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will help you.

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame.

Isaiah 14:26

This is the plan that is planned concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 34:2

For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their hoards; he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.

Isaiah 63:6

I trampled down peoples in my anger, I crushed them in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the peoples that do not call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Hosea 12:6

But as for you, return to your God, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Joel 3:2

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land,

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord's wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed; for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Haggai 2:22

and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders; and the horses and their riders shall fall, every one by the sword of a comrade.

Matthew 25:32

All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.

Revelation 16:1

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”

Revelation 16:14

These are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.