Zephaniah 2:2 Cross References
Zephaniah 2:2
2: Gather while there is still time, before judgment begins and your opportunity is blown away like chaff. Act now, before the fierce fury of the LORD falls and the terrible day of the LORD's anger begins.
Isaiah 17:13
- But though they roar like breakers on a beach, God will silence them. They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind or like dust whirling before a storm.
Hosea 13:3
- Therefore, they will disappear like the morning mist, like dew in the morning sun, like chaff blown by the wind, like smoke from a chimney.
Nahum 1:6
- Who can stand before his fierce anger? Who can survive his burning fury? His rage blazes forth like fire, and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence.
Psalms 1:4
- But this is not true of the wicked. They are like worthless chaff, scattered by the wind.
Lamentations 4:11
- But now the anger of the LORD is satisfied. His fiercest anger has now been poured out. He started a fire in Jerusalem that burned the city to its foundations.
Job 21:18
- Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm? Not at all!
Zephaniah 1:18
- Your silver and gold will be of no use to you on that day of the LORD's anger. For the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. He will make a terrifying end of all the people on earth.
2 Kings 22:16
- `This is what the LORD says: I will destroy this city and its people, just as I stated in the scroll you read.
- For my people have abandoned me and worshiped pagan gods, and I am very angry with them for everything they have done. My anger is burning against this place, and it will not be quenched.'
Zephaniah 3:8
- So now the LORD says: "Be patient; the time is coming soon when I will stand up and accuse these evil nations. For it is my decision to gather together the kingdoms of the earth and pour out my fiercest anger and fury on them. All the earth will be devoured by the fire of my jealousy.
Jeremiah 23:20
- The anger of the LORD will not diminish until it has finished all his plans. In the days to come, you will understand all this very clearly.
Malachi 4:1
- The LORD Almighty says, "The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. The arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw on that day. They will be consumed like a tree--roots and all.
- "But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.
2 Chronicles 36:16
- But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the LORD's anger could no longer be restrained and there was no remedy.
- So the LORD brought the king of Babylon against them. The Babylonians killed Judah's young men, even chasing after them into the Temple. They had no pity on the people, killing both young and old, men and women, healthy and sick. God handed them all over to Nebuchadnezzar.
Isaiah 41:15
- You will be a new threshing instrument with many sharp teeth. You will tear all your enemies apart, making chaff of mountains.
- You will toss them in the air, and the wind will blow them all away; a whirlwind will scatter them. And the joy of the LORD will fill you to overflowing. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 50:22
- Repent, all of you who ignore me, or I will tear you apart, and no one will help you.
Psalms 95:7
- for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the sheep under his care. Oh, that you would listen to his voice today!
- The LORD says, "Don't harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness.
Psalms 2:12
- Submit to God's royal son, or he will become angry, and you will be destroyed in the midst of your pursuits--for his anger can flare up in an instant. But what joy for all who find protection in him!
Luke 13:24
- "The door to heaven is narrow. Work hard to get in, because many will try to enter,
- but when the head of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. Then you will stand outside knocking and pleading, 'Lord, open the door for us!' But he will reply, 'I do not know you.'
- You will say, 'But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'
- And he will reply, 'I tell you, I don't know you. Go away, all you who do evil.'
- "And there will be great weeping and gnashing of teeth, for you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets within the Kingdom of God, but you will be thrown out.
2 Peter 3:4
- This will be their argument: "Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created."
- They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command, and he brought the earth up from the water and surrounded it with water.
- Then he used the water to destroy the world with a mighty flood.
- And God has also commanded that the heavens and the earth will be consumed by fire on the day of judgment, when ungodly people will perish.
- But you must not forget, dear friends, that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
2 Kings 23:26
- Even so, the LORD's anger burned against Judah because of all the great evils of King Manasseh, and he did not hold back his fierce anger from them.
- For the LORD had said, "I will destroy Judah just as I have destroyed Israel. I will banish the people from my presence and reject my chosen city of Jerusalem and the Temple where my name was to be honored."
Matthew 24:35
- Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will remain forever.
Ezekiel 12:25
- For I am the LORD! What I threaten always happens. There will be no more delays, you rebels of Israel! I will fulfill my threat of destruction in your own lifetime, says the Sovereign LORD."