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, ye that dwell in the mill! For all the merchant people are gone, and all they that were laden with silver, are rooted out.

There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.

Therefore shall God destroy thee forever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death.

But the rich man's goods are his stronghold, yea he taketh them for a high wall round about him.

Then, then shall man cast away his gods of silver and gold - which he nevertheless had made to honour them - unto moles and bats

Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Let not the wise man rejoice in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength; neither the rich man in his riches.

their silver shall lie in the streets, and their gold shall be despised. Yea, their silver and gold may not deliver them in the day of the fearful wrath of the LORD. They shall not satisfy their hungry souls, neither fill their empty bellies therewith: For it is become their own decay through their wickedness:

What shall it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or else, what shall a man give to redeem his soul again withal?

and I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry.'

And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell.

In the day

For that day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heaviness, a day of utter destruction and misery, a dark and gloomy day, a cloudy and stormy day,

that the wicked is kept unto the day of destruction, and that the ungodly shall be brought forth in the day of wrath.

The fire

Therefore ye shall wait upon me, sayeth the LORD, until the time that I stand up: for I am determined, to gather the people and to bring the kingdoms together, that I may pour out mine anger, yea all my wrathful displeasure upon them. For all the world shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

And Judah wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD and angered him above all that their fathers did, with their sin which they sinned.

And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.

LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever?

This similitude stretched out a hand, and took me by the hairy locks of my head, and the spirit lift me up betwixt heaven and earth: And God brought me in a vision to Jerusalem, into the court of the inward port that lieth toward the north. There stood an image, with whom he that hath all things in his power was very wroth.

Moreover, I will judge thee as a breaker of wedlock and a murderer, and recompense thee thine own blood in wrath and jealousy.

Yea, even thus sayeth the LORD God: In the fire of my jealousy have I taken a device against the residue of the Gentiles, and against all Edom: which have taken in my land unto themselves for a possession: which also rejoiced from their whole heart with a despiteful stomach, to waste it, and to spoil it.

Either, shall we provoke the Lord? Or are we stronger than he?

He shall

I will gather up all things in the land, sayeth the LORD.

Therefore saith the LORD God of Hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah, I must ease me of mine enemies, and avenge me upon them.

General references

"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Moreover, in those days after that tribulation, the sun shall wax dark, and the moon shall not give her light,

And I will show wonders in heaven above, and tokens in the earth beneath, blood and fire, and the vapour of smoke.