Zephaniah 1:18

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

Zephaniah 1:15

Job 21:30

The fire

He shall

Zephaniah 1:2

Isaiah 1:24

General references

Matthew 6:19

Mark 13:24

Acts 2:19

Bible References

Their silver

Howl, people of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are cut down; all those who carry silver are cut off.

Those who trust in their wealth, and their many riches, boast themselves.

God will likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own mind.

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

So says Jehovah, Do not let the wise glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty glory in his might; do not let the rich glory in his riches;

They shall throw their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be an impure thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah. They shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because their iniquity has become a stumbling-block for them.

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat drink and be merry.

And it happened that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich one also died and was buried.

In the day

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

that the wicked is kept for the day of calamity? They shall be brought to the day of wrath.

The fire

Therefore wait for Me, says Jehovah, for the day I rise up to the prey; for My judgment is to gather the nations, for Me to collect the kingdoms, to pour on them My fury, all My hot anger. For all the earth shall be burned up with the fire of My jealousy.

They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

And Judah did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

And He put out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the opening of the inner gate facing north, where there was a seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

And I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with shedders of blood. And I will give you blood and fury and jealousy.

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, who have given My land to themselves for a possession with all joy of heart, with scorning of soul, to make it open land for a prey.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

He shall

I will completely snatch away all from on the face of the ground, says Jehovah.

And the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, the mighty One of Israel, says, Alas! I will ease Myself of My foes, and avenge Myself of My enemies.

General references

Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

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.