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 shall strike you with madness and blindness, and astonishment of heart.

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury.

For Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes; He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers.

Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

they reeled blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that not any can touch their clothes.

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

And those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, Are we also blind?

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

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.

For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past.

But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

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

Because

And the land is defiled under its people; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the everlasting covenant.

So says Jehovah, Where is your mother's bill of divorce, whom I have put away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother is put away for your sins.

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 on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?

Your way and your doings have brought these things on you; this is your evil, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

Jerusalem has grievously sinned, therefore she has been removed. All knowing her despise her because they saw her nakedness; yea, she sighs and turns backward.

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

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned.

A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied 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 commandments and from Your judgments.

Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.

But the land shall be wasted because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

And their blood

And he said, Throw her down! And they threw her down. And some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses. And he trampled her.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the earth.

For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our houses, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.

And I will set over them four kinds, says Jehovah; the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

They shall die from deaths of diseases; they shall not be mourned, nor shall they be buried. But they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. And they shall be destroyed by the sword and by famine; and their bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.

Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the hand of the sword. And let their wives be bereaved, and widows, and their men be slain of death; let their young men be struck by the sword in battle.

Young and old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your anger; You have killed and not pitied.

they reeled blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that not any can touch their clothes.

I have sent the plague among you in the way of Egypt; I have slain your young men with the sword, and have taken away your horses. And I have made the stench of your camps to come up into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.

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 give wonders in the heaven above, and miracles on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.