Zephaniah 1:17 Cross References

Zephaniah 1:17

17: "Because you have sinned against the LORD, I will make you as helpless as a blind man searching for a path. Your blood will be poured out into the dust, and your bodies will lie there rotting on the ground."

Psalms 83:10

  1. They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.

Micah 7:13

  1. But the land will become empty and desolate because of the wickedness of those who live there.

Lamentations 1:18

  1. "And the LORD is right," she groans, "for I rebelled against him. Listen, people everywhere; look upon my anguish and despair, for my sons and daughters have been taken captive to distant lands.

Ezekiel 22:25

  1. Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.
  2. Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
  3. Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
  4. And your prophets announce false visions and speak false messages. They say, `My message is from the Sovereign LORD,' when the LORD hasn't spoken a single word to them. They repair cracked walls with whitewash!
  5. Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.

Jeremiah 4:18

  1. "Your own actions have brought this upon you. This punishment is a bitter dose of your own medicine. It has pierced you to the heart!"

Jeremiah 15:3

  1. "I will send four kinds of destroyers against them," says the LORD. "I will send the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is left.

Isaiah 50:1

  1. The LORD asks, "Did I sell you as slaves to my creditors? Is that why you are not here? Is your mother gone because I divorced her and sent her away? No, you went away as captives because of your sins. And your mother, too, was taken because of your sins.

2 Kings 9:33

  1. "Throw her down!" Jehu yelled. So they threw her out the window, and some of her blood spattered against the wall and on the horses. And Jehu trampled her body under his horses' hooves.
  2. Then Jehu went into the palace and ate and drank. Afterward he said, "Someone go and bury this cursed woman, for she is the daughter of a king."
  3. But when they went out to bury her, they found only her skull, her feet, and her hands.
  4. When they returned and told Jehu, he stated, "This fulfills the message from the LORD, which he spoke through his servant Elijah from Tishbe: `At the plot of land in Jezreel, dogs will eat Jezebel's flesh.
  5. Her body will be scattered like dung on the field of Jezreel, so that no one will be able to recognize her.'"

Lamentations 5:16

  1. The garlands have fallen from our heads. Disaster has fallen upon us because we have sinned.
  2. Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.

Jeremiah 2:19

  1. Your own wickedness will punish you. You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to forsake the LORD your God, having no fear of him. I, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, have spoken!

Revelation 3:17

  1. You say, 'I am rich. I have everything I want. I don't need a thing!' And you don't realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Deuteronomy 28:28

  1. The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.
  2. You will grope around in broad daylight, just like a blind person groping in the darkness, and you will not succeed at anything you do. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.

Amos 4:10

  1. "I sent plagues against you like the plagues I sent against Egypt long ago. I killed your young men in war and slaughtered all your horses. The stench of death filled the air! But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.

2 Peter 1:9

  1. But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.

Jeremiah 18:21

  1. So let their children starve! Let the sword pour out their blood! Let their wives become widows without any children! Let their old men die in a plague, and let their young men be killed in battle!

Lamentations 4:13

  1. Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and priests, who defiled the city by shedding innocent blood.
  2. They wandered blindly through the streets, so defiled by blood that no one dared to touch them.
  3. "Get away!" the people shouted at them. "You are defiled! Don't touch us!" So they fled to distant lands and wandered there among foreign nations, but none would let them stay.

Jeremiah 10:18

  1. says the LORD. "For suddenly, I will fling you from this land and pour great troubles upon you. At last you will feel my anger."

Lamentations 2:21

  1. "See them lying in the streets--young and old, boys and girls, killed by the swords of the enemy. You have killed them in your anger, slaughtering them without mercy.

Romans 11:7

  1. So this is the situation: Most of the Jews have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have--the ones God has chosen--but the rest were made unresponsive.

Matthew 15:14

  1. so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch."

John 9:40

  1. The Pharisees who were standing there heard him and asked, "Are you saying we are blind?"
  2. "If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty," Jesus replied. "But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.

Daniel 9:5

  1. But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.
  2. We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke your messages to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.
  3. "Lord, you are in the right; but our faces are covered with shame, just as you see us now. This is true of us all, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.
  4. O LORD, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.
  5. But the Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

Jeremiah 2:17

  1. And you have brought this on yourselves by rebelling against the LORD your God when he wanted to lead you and show you the way!

1 John 2:11

  1. Anyone who hates a Christian brother or sister is living and walking in darkness. Such a person is lost, having been blinded by the darkness.

Isaiah 24:5

  1. The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted the instructions of God, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.
  2. Therefore, a curse consumes the earth and its people. They are left desolate, destroyed by fire. Few will be left alive.

Psalms 79:2

  1. They have left the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of heaven. The flesh of your godly ones has become food for the wild animals.
  2. Blood has flowed like water all around Jerusalem; no one is left to bury the dead.

Isaiah 59:12

  1. For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are.
  2. We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
  3. Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.
  4. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries to live a godly life is soon attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find that there was no justice.

Lamentations 1:14

  1. "He wove my sins into ropes to hitch me to a yoke of captivity. The Lord sapped my strength and gave me to my enemies; I am helpless in their hands.

Isaiah 59:9

  1. It is because of all this evil that deliverance is far from us. That is why God doesn't punish those who injure us. No wonder we are in darkness when we expected light. No wonder we are walking in the gloom.
  2. No wonder we grope like blind people and stumble along. Even at brightest noontime, we fall down as though it were dark. No wonder we are like corpses when compared to vigorous young men!

Lamentations 1:8

  1. Jerusalem has sinned greatly, so she has been tossed away like a filthy rag. All who once honored her now despise her, for they have seen her stripped naked and humiliated. All she can do is groan and hide her face.

Micah 3:9

  1. Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
  2. You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
  3. You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."
  4. So because of you, Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field; Jerusalem will be reduced to rubble! A great forest will grow on the hilltop, where the Temple now stands.

Jeremiah 9:21

  1. For death has crept in through our windows and has entered our mansions. It has killed off the flower of our youth: Children no longer play in the streets, and young men no longer gather in the squares.
  2. And the LORD says, "Bodies will be scattered across the fields like dung, or like bundles of grain after the harvest. No one will be left to bury them."

Isaiah 29:10

  1. For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.

Jeremiah 16:4

  1. They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like dung. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.
  2. "Do not go to their funerals to mourn and show sympathy for them," says the LORD, "for I have removed my protection and peace from them. I have taken away my unfailing love and my mercy.
  3. Both the great and the lowly will die in this land. No one will bury them or mourn for them. Their friends will not cut themselves or shave their heads in sadness.

Romans 11:25

  1. I want you to understand this mystery, dear brothers and sisters, so that you will not feel proud and start bragging. Some of the Jews have hard hearts, but this will last only until the complete number of Gentiles comes to Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:4

  1. Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News that is shining upon them. They don't understand the message we preach about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
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