Zephaniah 1:14-18

The Day of the Lord Is Near

14 d The great day of the Lord is near,
near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
e the mighty man cries aloud there.
 15 f A day of wrath is that day,
a day of distress and anguish,
a day of g ruin and devastation,
h a day of darkness and gloom,
h a day of clouds and thick darkness,
 16 i a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
j against the fortified cities
and against the lofty battlements.

17 k I will bring distress on mankind,
so that they shall walk l like the blind,
because they have sinned against the Lord;
m their blood shall be poured out like dust,
and their flesh n like dung.
 18 o Neither their silver nor their gold
shall be able to deliver them
on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
p In the fire of his jealousy,
q all the earth shall be consumed;
r for a full and sudden end
he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

  1. Cross References
    Zephaniah 1:7
    Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is near; the Lord has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.
    Ezekiel 7:7
    Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains.
    Ezekiel 7:12
    The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:7
    Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
  3. Cross References
    Joel 1:15
    Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
  4. Cross References
    Job 30:3
    Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation.
  5. Cross References
    Joel 2:2
    A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
  6. Cross References
    Joel 2:2
    A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 4:19
    My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
  8. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:15
    Against every high tower, and against every fortified wall.
  9. Cross References
    Jeremiah 10:18
    For thus says the Lord : "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:29
    And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
    Isaiah 59:10
    We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
  11. Cross References
    Psalms 79:3
    They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 83:10
    Who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
  13. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:19
    They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
    Proverbs 11:4
    Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
  14. Cross References
    Zephaniah 3:8
    Therefore wait for me," declares the Lord, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
  15. Cross References
    Ezekiel 36:5
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
  16. Cross References
    Zephaniah 1:2 - 3
    I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the Lord.
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