Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

Cross References (21)

  • Isaiah 15:1–9 (8)

    This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a n

  • Isaiah 11:14 (7)

    They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They

  • Deuteronomy 29:23 (6)

    All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like

  • Isaiah 25:10 (5)

    For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the

  • Isaiah 49:18 (4)

    Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD,

  • Jeremiah 48:1 (4)

    Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiria

  • Zephaniah 2:14 (3)

    Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pilla

  • Ezekiel 25:1–17 (3)

    Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Micah 5:7–8 (3)

    Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which

  • Joel 3:19–20 (3)

    Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose l

  • Isaiah 13:19–20 (3)

    And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom an

  • Jeremiah 49:18 (3)

    As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will

  • Genesis 19:24–25 (3)

    Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

  • Isaiah 34:9–13 (3)

    Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

  • Amos 1:13 (3)

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, becaus

  • Zephaniah 2:7 (3)

    The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the even

  • Jeremiah 46:18 (3)

    As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the

  • Zephaniah 3:13 (3)

    The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But t

  • Numbers 14:21 (2)

    “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

  • Jeremiah 50:40 (2)

    As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man wil

  • Romans 14:11 (2)

    It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”