Zephaniah 1:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Neither 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.

Zephaniah 1:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith 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 upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Ezekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: 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 is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Zephaniah 1:2-3
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. …
Zephaniah 1:11
Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-18)

Nothing could be expressed with more spirit and life, nor in words more proper to startle and awaken a secure and careless people, than the warning here given to Judah and Jerusalem of the approaching destruction by the Chaldeans. That is enough to make the sinners in Zion tremble—that it is the day of the Lord, the day in which he will manifest himself by taking vengeance on them. It is the great…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. Neither ... silver nor ... gold shall ... deliver them, &c.--(Pr 11:4). fire of his jealousy--(Eze 38:19); His wrath jealous for His honor consuming the guilty like fire. make even a speedy riddance of all--rather, a “consummation” (complete destruction: “full end,” Jr 46:28; Eze 11:13) “altogether sudden” [Maurer]. “A consumption, and that a sudden one” [Calvin].