Zephaniah 2:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the sea coast shal be dwellings and cotages for shepheardes and sheepefoldes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:17 : 17 Then shall the lambes feede after their maner, and the strangers shall eate the desolate places of the fat.
  • Isa 17:2 : 2 The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for they shall lye there, and none shall make them afraide.
  • Ezek 25:5 : 5 And I will make Rabbah a dwelling place for camels, and the Ammonites a sheepecote, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.
  • Zeph 2:14-15 : 14 And flockes shall lie in the middes of her, and all the beastes of the nations, and the pelicane, and the owle shall abide in the vpper postes of it: the voyce of birdes shall sing in the windowes, and desolations shalbe vpon the postes: for the cedars are vncouered. 15 This is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelesse, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she made waste, and the lodging of the beastes! euery one that passeth by her, shall hisse and wagge his hand.

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  • Zeph 2:7
    82%

    7And that coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Iudah, to feede thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shal they lodge toward night: for the Lorde their God shall visite them, and turne away their captiuitie.

  • Zeph 2:4-5
    2 verses
    81%

    4For Azzah shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon desolate: they shall driue out Ashdod at the noone day, and Ekron shalbe rooted vp.

    5Wo vnto the inhabitants of the sea coast. the nation of the Cherethims, the worde of the Lorde is against you: O Canaan, the lande of the Philistims, I will euen destroye thee without an inhabitant.

  • Jer 33:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12Thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, Againe in this place, which is desolate, without man, & without beast, and in all the cities thereof there shall be dwelling for shepheards to rest their flockes.

    13In the cities of the mountaines, in the cities in the plaine, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Beniamin, and about Ierusalem, & in the cities of Iudah shall the sheepe passe againe, vnder the hand of him that telleth them, sayth the Lord.

  • Jer 25:34-37
    4 verses
    74%

    34Howle, ye shepherdes, and crie, and wallowe your selues in the ashes, ye principall of the flocke: for your dayes of slaughter are accomplished, and of your dispersion, and ye shall fall like precious vessels.

    35And the flight shall faile from the shepherdes, and the escaping from the principall of the flocke.

    36A voyce of the crye of the shepherdes, and an howling of the principall of the flocke shalbe heard: for the Lord hath destroyed their pasture.

    37And the best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the Lorde.

  • Jer 6:3
    74%

    3The pastors with their flockes shall come vnto her: they shall pitche their tentes rounde about by her, & euery one shal feede in his place.

  • Ezek 25:16
    73%

    16Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, Behold, I will stretche out mine hand vpon the Philistims, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

  • Ezek 34:5-9
    5 verses
    73%

    5And they were scattered without a shepherde: and when they were dispersed, they were deuoured of all the beastes of the fielde.

    6My sheepe wandred through all the mountaines, and vpon euery hie hill: yea, my flocke was scattered through al the earth, and none did seeke or search after them.

    7Therefore ye shepherds, heare the woorde of the Lord.

    8As I liue, sayeth the Lorde God, surely because my flocke was spoyled, and my sheepe were deuoured of all the beasts of the fielde, hauing no shepherde, neither did my shepherdes seeke my sheepe, but the shepherdes fedde them selues, and fedde not my sheepe,

    9Therefore, heare ye the word of the Lorde, O ye shepherds.

  • Isa 17:2
    72%

    2The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for they shall lye there, and none shall make them afraide.

  • Jer 31:24
    72%

    24And Iudah shall dwell in it, and all the cities thereof together, the husbandmen and they that goe foorth with the flocke.

  • Isa 65:10
    72%

    10And Sharon shalbe a sheepefolde, and the valley of Achor shalbe a resting place for the cattell of my people, that haue sought me.

  • Ezek 26:5
    72%

    5Thou shalt be for the spreading of nettes in the middes of the sea: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God, and it shalbe a spoile to ye nations.

  • Jer 50:6
    71%

    6My people hath beene as lost sheepe: their shepheards haue caused them to goe astray, and haue turned them away to the mountaines: they haue gone from mountaine to hil, and forgotten their resting place.

  • Mic 7:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Notwithstanding, the lande shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, and for the fruites of their inuentions.

    14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flocke of thine heritage (which dwell solitarie in the wood) as in the middes of Carmel: let them feede in Bashan and Gilead, as in olde time.

  • Jer 31:10
    71%

    10Heare the worde of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, and declare in the yles afarre off, and say, Hee that scattered Israel, wil gather him and wil keepe him, as a shepheard doeth his flocke.

  • Jer 50:39
    71%

    39Therefore the Ziims with the Iims shall dwel there, & the ostriches shal dwel therein: for it shall be no more inhabited, neither shall it be inhabited from generation vnto generation.

  • Isa 27:10
    71%

    10Yet the defenced citie shalbe desolate, and the habitation shalbe forsaken, and left like a wildernes. There shall the calfe feede, and there shall he lie, and consume the branches thereof.

  • Amos 1:8
    71%

    8And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and turne mine hande to Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistims shall perish, sayth the Lord God.

  • Zech 9:5
    71%

    5Ashkelon shall see it, and feare, and Azzah also shalbe very sorowfull, and Ekron: for her countenance shalbe ashamed, & the King shal perish fro Azzah, & Ashkelon shal not be inhabited.

  • Num 35:3
    70%

    3So they shall haue the cities to dwell in, & their suburbes shall be for their cattell, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

  • Mic 2:12
    70%

    12I will surely gather thee wholy, O Iaakob: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel: I will put them together as the sheepe of Bozrah, euen as the flocke in the mids of their folde: the cities shall be full of brute of the men.

  • Jer 23:4
    70%

    4And I will set vp shepheardes ouer them, which shall feede them: and they shall dread no more nor be afraide, neither shall any of them be lacking, saith the Lorde.

  • Obad 1:20
    70%

    20And the captiuitie of this host of the children of Israel, which were among the Canaanites, shall possesse vnto Zarephath, and the captiuitie of Ierusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possesse the cities of the South.

  • Zech 11:4
    70%

    4Thus sayeth the Lorde my God, Feede the sheepe of the slaughter.

  • Zech 11:16
    70%

    16For loe, I will rayse vp a shepheard in the land, which shall not looke for the thing, that is lost, nor seeke the tender lambes, nor heale that that is hurt, nor feede that that standeth vp: but he shall eate the flesh of the fat, and teare their clawes in pieces.

  • Isa 5:9
    69%

    9This is in mine cares, saith the Lorde of hostes. Surely many houses shall be desolate, euen great, and faire without inhabitant.

  • Isa 7:19
    69%

    19And they shall come and shall light all in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rockes, and vpon all thorny places, and vpon all bushy places.

  • Ezek 38:12
    69%

    12Thinking to spoyle the pray, and to take a bootie, to turne thine hande vpon the desolate places that are nowe inhabited, and vpon the people, that are gathered out of the nations which haue gotten cattell and goods, and dwell in the middes of the land.

  • Isa 5:17
    69%

    17Then shall the lambes feede after their maner, and the strangers shall eate the desolate places of the fat.

  • Zeph 1:13
    69%

    13Therefore 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.

  • Ezek 36:34
    69%

    34And the desolate land shalbe tilled, whereas it lay waste in the sight of all that passed by.

  • Ezek 34:22
    69%

    22Therefore wil I helpe my sheepe, and they shal no more be spoyled, & I wil iudge betweene sheepe and sheepe.

  • Jer 50:19
    69%

    19And I will bring Israel againe to his habitation: hee shall feede on Carmel and Bashan, and his soule shall be satisfied vpon the mount Ephraim and Gilead.

  • Ezek 34:14
    69%

    14I will feede them in a good pasture, and vpon the hie mountaines of Israel shal their folde be: there shall they lie in a good folde and in fat pasture shall they feede vpon the mountaines of Israel.

  • Ezek 34:2
    69%

    2Sonne of man, prophesie against the shepherdes of Israel, prophesie & say vnto them, Thus saieth the Lord God vnto the shepherds, Wo be vnto the shepherds of Israel, that feede them selues: should not the shepherds feede the flockes?

  • Num 34:6
    69%

    6And your Westquarter shall bee the great Sea: euen that border shalbe your Westcoast.

  • Isa 13:14
    69%

    14And it shall be as a chased doe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp. euery man shall turne to his owne people, and flee eche one to his owne lande.

  • Isa 7:21
    69%

    21And in the same day shall a man nourish a yong kowe, and two sheepe.

  • Isa 7:25
    69%

    25But on all the mountaines, which shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shal not come thither the feare of briers and thornes: but they shalbe for the sending out of bullocks, and for the treading of sheepe.

  • Isa 23:6
    69%

    6Goe you ouer to Tarshish: howle, yee that dwell in the yles.

  • Joel 1:18
    69%

    18How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, & the flockes of sheepe are destroyed.