Zephaniah 1:11

The Scriptures 2009

“Howl, you inhabitants of Maḵtĕsh, for all the merchant people shall be silenced, all those weighing out silver shall be cut off.

Cross References

Job 27:16

Though he heaps up silver like dust, and lays up garments like clay –

Job 27:17

he lays up, but the righteous puts it on, and the innocent divides the silver.

Jeremiah 25:34

“Howl, you shepherds, and cry! And roll yourselves in the ashes, you leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your scatterings are completed, and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

Jeremiah 4:8

“For this, gird yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail. For the burning displeasure of יהוה has not turned back from us.

Ezekiel 21:12

“Cry and wail, son of man, for it shall be on My people, on all the leaders of Yisra’ĕl. They shall be delivered to the sword together with My people, therefore strike your thigh.

Hosea 9:6

For look, they shall go because of destruction – Mitsrayim gathers them up, Moph buries them, nettles possess their valuables of silver, thorns are in their tents.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Wail, you attendants of the slaughter-place. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you attendants of my Elohim. For the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your Elohim.

Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep. And wail, all you drinkers of wine, on account of the new wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Zephaniah 2:5

Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Kerĕthites! The word of יהוה is against you, O Kena‛an, land of the Philistines, “And I shall destroy you, so that there is no inhabitant.”

Zechariah 14:21

And every pot in Yerushalayim and Yehuḏah shall be set-apart to יהוה of hosts. And all those who slaughter shall come and take them and cook in them. And there shall no longer be a merchant in the House of יהוה of hosts, in that day.

John 2:16

And He said to those selling doves, “Take these away! Do not make the house of My Father a house of merchandise!”

James 5:1

Come now, rich ones, weep, crying aloud over the hardships coming upon you!