Zephaniah 1:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

The LORD shall strike you with madness, and blindness, and confusion of mind:

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered.

Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?

What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded

In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.

Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Because

The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

Have you not brought this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?

Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart.

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sighs, and turns away.

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

The crown has fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in her midst.

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments:

Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

Nevertheless the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell in it, and for the fruit of their deeds.

And their blood

And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.

The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be food unto the fowls of heaven, the flesh of your saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Who perished at Endor: they became as refuse for the earth.

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the squares.

And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

They shall die grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as refuse upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied.

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

I have sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.

General references

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

And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke: