Zephaniah 1:13

Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses will be an abandoned devastation! 1 They will build houses but not live in them, and plant vineyards but not drink their wine. 1

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Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

In Context

12It will come about at that time that 1 I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men 1 who have settled into their wine and say in their heart, 1 'Yahweh will not do anything, either good or evil.' 1

14The great day of Yahweh is near, near and hurrying quickly! 1 The sound of the day of Yahweh will be that of a warrior crying bitterly! 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will seize her and rape her. You will build a house but not live in it; you will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:51They will eat the young of your cattle and the fruit of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave for you no grain, new wine, or oil, no young of your cattle or of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, 1 “Until cities crash into ruins and are without inhabitants, 1 and the houses are without people, and the land falls into a desolate waste, 1

Isaiah 65:21They will build houses and inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 1

Jeremiah 4:20Disaster follows after disaster; for all the land lies in ruins. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 9:11So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals. 1 I will make Judah's cities ruined places without inhabitants.” 1

Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 1:8-14

Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 612.) 7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God : for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. 8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord 's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel. 9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit. 10 And it shall come to pass… Read the whole commentary →

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