Zephaniah 1:17

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Summary

And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

They shall

Because

And their blood

General references

Mark 13:24

Acts 2:19

Bible References

They shall

Jehovah will strike thee with madness and with blindness and with astonishment of heart;

They poured out their blood as water round about Jerusalem; and none burying.

For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered.

For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness.

The blind were shaken in the streets, they were stained with blood, so that they shall not be able to touch upon their garments.

Let them go: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

And they being with him of the Pharisees heard these things, and said to him,

What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened.

In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

And he hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and knows not where he goes forward, for darkness has blinded his eyes.

For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

Because

And the earth was polluted under its inhabitants, for they passed by the instructions, they changed the law, they broke the eternal covenant

Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.

For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them.

Wilt thou not do this to thyself? thou didst forsake Jehovah thy God in the time of thy being led in the way.

Thy way and thy doings did these things to thee; this thine evil, for it was bitter because it reached even to thy heart.

Jerusalem sinned a sin; for this she was for a removing: all honoring her despised her, for they saw her nakedness: also she sighed, and she will turn away behind.

From the sins of her prophets the iniquities of her priests shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

The crown of our head fell: wo! now to us, for we sinned.

A conspiracy of her prophets in her midst as a roaring lion rending the prey; they consumed the soul; they will take the wealth and the precious thing; they multiplied her widows in her midst

We sinned, and we did iniquity, and were evil, and rebelled, and departing from thy commands and from thy judgments.

Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness.

And the land was for a desolation upon its inhabitants from the fruit of their doings.

And their blood

And he will say, Throw her down. And they will throw her down, and there will be sprinkled of her blood upon the wall and upon the horses: and he will tread her under foot

They gave the corpses of thy servants food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

They were destroyed at the fountain of the dwelling: they were dung to the earth.

For death came up into our windows, it came into our palaces to cut off the child from without, the young men from the streets.

And I reviewed over them four kinds, says Jehovah: the sword to kill, and dogs to tear in pieces, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to consume and destroy.

Deaths of diseases shall they die; they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth, and by sword and by famine shall they be consumed, and their carcass was for food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.

For this, give their sons to the famine, and pour them out upon the hands of the sword; and their wives shall be bereaved of offspring, and be widows; and their men shall be slain by death; their young men struck of the sword in battle.

The youth and old man lay down upon the earth of the streets; my virgins and my young men fell by the sword; thou didst slay in the day of thine anger; thou didst slay, thou didst not pity.

The blind were shaken in the streets, they were stained with blood, so that they shall not be able to touch upon their garments.

And I sent death among you in the way of Egypt: and I slew your young men with the sword, with the captivity of your horses; and I will bring up your camps with fire and in your anger, and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.

General references

But in those days, after that pressure, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

And I will give wonders in heaven above, and signs upon the earth below; blood, and fire, and steam of smoke: