Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Their silver
In the day
The fire
He shall
General references
Bible References
Their silver
Zephaniah 1:11
Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.
Psalm 49:6
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Psalm 52:5
Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)
Proverbs 11:4
Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.
Proverbs 18:11
The wealth of a rich person is like a strong city, and it is like a high wall in his imagination.
Isaiah 2:20
At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,
Jeremiah 9:23
The Lord says, "Wise people should not boast that they are wise. Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. Rich people should not boast that they are rich.
Ezekiel 7:19
They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord's fury. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth was the obstacle leading to their iniquity.
Matthew 16:26
For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Luke 12:19
And I will say to myself, "You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!"'
Luke 16:22
"Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.
In the day
Zephaniah 1:15
That day will be a day of God's anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,
Job 21:30
that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God's wrath?
The fire
Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore you must wait patiently for me," says the Lord, "for the day when I attack and take plunder. I have decided to gather nations together and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them -- all my raging anger. For the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger.
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
1 Kings 14:22
Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.
Psalm 78:58
They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.
Psalm 79:5
How long will this go on, O Lord? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?
Ezekiel 8:3
He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.
Ezekiel 16:38
I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage.
Ezekiel 36:5
therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.'
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?
He shall
Zephaniah 1:2
"I will destroy everything from the face of the earth," says the Lord.
Isaiah 1:24
Therefore, the sovereign Lord who commands armies, the powerful ruler of Israel, says this: "Ah, I will seek vengeance against my adversaries, I will take revenge against my enemies.
General references
Matthew 6:19
"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
Mark 13:24
"But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light;
Acts 2:19
And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.