Zephaniah 1:17

Judah's Impending Judgment

¹⁶ That day will be a day of alarm signals and battle cries against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers. ¹⁷ I will bring distress on men
So that they will walk like the blind,
Because they have sinned against the Lord;
And their blood will be poured out like dust
And their flesh like dung.
¹⁸ Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah's anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!

Sinned Against the Lord

Jehovah

Psalm 83:10

Who perished at Endor and became as dung for the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:28-29

You will become insane and go blind. Jehovah will make you so confused,

2 Kings 9:33-37

He said: Take her and throw her out the window. So they threw her down with force. Her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses. She was crushed under their feet.

Psalm 79:2-3

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to the birds for food. They have given the flesh of your godly ones to the animals.

Isaiah 24:5-6

The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 29:10

Jehovah has made you drowsy. He shut your eyes in a deep sleep you prophets and visionaries. He overwhelmed your leaders.

Isaiah 50:1

This is what Jehovah says: Where are your mother's divorce papers? Did I give her any to get rid of her? To which of my creditors did I sell you? You were sold because of your sins. I got rid of your mother because of your rebellion.

Isaiah 59:9-10

That is why justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light and we walk in darkness. We hope for brightness but we walk in gloom.

Isaiah 59:12-15

You are aware of our many rebellious acts. Our sins testify against us. Our rebellious acts are with us. We know our iniquities.

Jeremiah 2:17

You have done this to yourself by abandoning Jehovah your God when he led you on his way.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you. Your apostasies (unfaithful ways) will punish you! You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you when you abandon Jehovah your God! You do not respect (reverence) me, says the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

You brought this on yourself. This is your punishment. It is bitter. It breaks your heart.

Jeremiah 9:21-22

Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places.

Jeremiah 10:18

Jehovah says: I am evicting the inhabitants of the land at this time. I will cause them distress that they may be found.

Jeremiah 15:3

I will appoint over them four kinds of punishment, declares Jehovah. I will send swords to kill, dogs to drag away, and birds of the air and animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:4-6

They will die of lethal diseases. They will not be mourned or buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground and die by sword and famine (war and starvation). Their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Lamentations 1:8

Great is the sin of Jerusalem! For this cause she has become an unclean thing. Those who gave her honor are looking down on her. They see her shame. Now truly, sighing out grief, she turns back.

Lamentations 1:14

He keeps watch on my sins. They are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he makes my strength give way. Jehovah gives me into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

Lamentations 1:18

Jehovah is upright. I have rebelled against him. Listen all you people and see my pain. My virgins and my young men are taken away as prisoners.

Lamentations 2:21

Both young and old lie dead in the streets. Enemy swords kill young men and women. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.

Lamentations 4:13-15

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil doing of her priests. They have drained the blood of the upright out from her.

Lamentations 5:16-17

The crown has been taken from our head. Sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

Ezekiel 22:25-31

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

Daniel 9:5-19

We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

Amos 4:10

I sent a plague among you just as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses. I made the stench of your camp come up even into your nostrils and yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

Micah 3:9-12

Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. You who abhor justice, and pervert honesty!

Micah 7:13

The earth will become desolate because of the inhabitants and the fruit of their deeds.

Matthew 15:14

Let them be. They are blind guides. If a blind man guides another blind man, they will fall in a hole together.

John 9:40-41

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him: Are we also blind?

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks. The chosen ones have obtained it, and the rest were blinded (rendered stupid) (hardened) (made insensitive).

Romans 11:25

I do not want you to be ignorant of this secret, lest you should be wise in your own conceits (estimation). Blindness has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations comes in.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this age (world) (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement) has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

2 Peter 1:9

For he who lacks these qualities is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

1 John 2:11

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

Revelation 3:17

You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.