Zeph.2.15

Zephaniah 2:15

KJV

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

Judgment on Cush and Assyria

Cross References

Revelation 18:7

KJV GOD

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Babylon Is Fallen

Job 16:4

KJV

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

Job Decries His Comforters

Job Says Friends Are Sorry Comforters

Isaiah 22:2

KJV

Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

The Valley of Vision

Isaiah 32:9

KJV

¶ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

The Women of Jerusalem

Isaiah 32:11

KJV

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

The Women of Jerusalem

Isaiah 32:14

KJV

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

The Women of Jerusalem

Isaiah 47:8

KJV GOD

Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

The Humiliation of Babylon

Jeremiah 18:16

KJV GOD

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

The Potter and the Clay

Jeremiah 19:8

KJV GOD

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

The Broken Jar

Lamentations 2:15

KJV

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

God’s Anger over Jerusalem

Ezekiel 27:36

KJV GOD

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

A Lament for Tyre

Ezekiel 28:2

KJV GOD

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

A Prophecy against the Ruler of Tyre

Ezekiel 28:9

KJV GOD

Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.