Zephaniah 1:13 “Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.

American Standard Version

And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore their goods shall be spoyled, and their houses waste: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.

Darby Translation

And their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation; and they shall build houses, and not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and not drink the wine thereof.

Young's Literal Translation

And their wealth hath been for a spoil, And their houses for desolation, And they have built houses, and do not inhabit, And they have planted vineyards, And they do not drink their wine.

Bible in Basic English

And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

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Cross references

“their goods”

Jeremiah 9:19 Ezekiel 7:21 Zephaniah 1:9 Isaiah 6:11 Isaiah 24:1–3 Jeremiah 4:7

Jeremiah 9:19 · BSB

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.’”

Ezekiel 7:21 · BSB

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

Zephaniah 1:9 · BSB

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Isaiah 6:11 · BSB

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,

Isaiah 24:1–3 · BSB

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

Jeremiah 4:7 · BSB

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

“build”

Amos 5:11 Micah 6:15 Deuteronomy 28:30 Deuteronomy 28:39 Deuteronomy 28:51 Isaiah 5:8

Amos 5:11 · BSB

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.

Micah 6:15 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 28:30 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 28:39 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 28:51 · BSB

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…

Isaiah 5:8 · BSB

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.

Also

Jeremiah 15:13

Jeremiah 15:13 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

14The great Day of the LORD is near— near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.

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