Cross references

Zephaniah 1:13

Their wealth will be plundered

and their houses laid waste.

They will build houses but not inhabit them,

and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.

Zephaniah 1:13 BSB

Zephaniah 1:13 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Amos 5:11 (8 votes) and Micah 6:15 (6 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Deuteronomy 20 to Zephaniah 1.

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Which verses does Zephaniah 1:13 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Amos 5:118 votes

    Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

  2. Micah 6:156 votes

    You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

  3. You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

  4. You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

  5. For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

  6. Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.

  7. And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

  8. They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

  9. Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land. I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

  10. Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

  11. Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

  12. “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

  13. They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

  14. Micah 3:122 votes

Which verses point to Zephaniah 1:13?

The 10 strongest of 12.