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

Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone. All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches?

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, 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, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Thus says the LORD, "Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, do not let the rich man glory in his riches;

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

In the day

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

The fire

"Therefore wait for me," says the LORD, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Judah did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they 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 engraved images.

How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.'"'

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

He shall

I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says the LORD.

Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;

General references

"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.