Zephaniah 2:15

The Scriptures 1998

This is the exultant city that is dwelling in safety, that said in her heart, “I am it, and there is none but me.” How has she become a waste, a place for beasts to lie down! Everyone who passes by her whistles and shakes his fist.

Cross References

Job 16:4

I might also speak like you, if you were in my place. I might heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

Job 27:23

It claps its hands at him, and it hisses him out of his place.

Isaiah 22:2

you who are filled with turmoils, a noisy city, a city of revelry? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor the dead in battle.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones; strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your waists.

Isaiah 32:14

for the palace is abandoned, the crowded city deserted. Hill and watchtower serve as caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 32:9

Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; rise up you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.

Isaiah 47:10

“And you have trusted in your evil, you have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge have led you astray. And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none but me.’

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land become a ruin, a hissing forever – everyone who passes by it is appalled and shakes his head.

Jeremiah 19:8

“And I shall make this city a ruin, and a hissing – everyone who passes by it is appalled and hisses because of all its plagues.

Jeremiah 50:13

“Because of the wrath of יהוה  she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be deserted – all of it. Everyone passing by Baḇ

Lamentations 1:1

How alone she sits, The city once great with people! Like a widow she has become, One great among the nations! A princess among provinces has become a slave!

Lamentations 2:1

How יהוה  in His displeasure Has covered the daughter of Tsiyon with a cloud! He has cast down from the heavens to the earth The comeliness of Yisra’ĕ

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass by have clapped their hands at you. They have whistled, And they shake their heads At the daughter of Yerushalayim, “Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of loveliness, The joy of all the earth’?”

Ezekiel 27:36

‘The merchants among the peoples shall whistle at you. You shall become a horror, and be no more, forever.’ ” ’ ”

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tsor, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Because your heart is lifted up, and you say, ‘I am Ě

Ezekiel 28:9

“Would you still say before him who slays you, ‘I am Elohim’, whereas you are man, and not Ě

Ezekiel 29:3

“Speak, and you shall say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am against you, O Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, ‘My River is my own, and I, I have made it for myself.’

Daniel 4:27

“Therefore, O sovereign, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your crookednesses by showing favour to the poor – your prosperity might be extended.”

Nahum 3:19

Your injury has no healing, your wound is grievous. All who hear news of you shall clap their hands over you. For over whom did your evil not pass continually?

Habakkuk 1:7

“They are frightening and fearsome, their right-ruling and their exaltation proceed from themselves.

Matthew 27:39

And those passing by were blaspheming Him, shaking their heads,