Exodus 20:5
20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them,
for I, the
Lord, your God, am a jealous
God, responding to
the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations
of those who reject me,
Exodus 34:14
34:14 For you must not worship
any other god,
for the
Lord, whose name
is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Psalms 78:58
78:58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines,
and made him jealous with their idols.
Psalms 79:5
79:5 How long will this go on, O Lord?
Will you stay angry forever?
How long will your rage burn like fire?
The Song of Songs 8:6
The Nature of True Love
The Beloved to Her Lover:
8:6 Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart,
like a signet on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
passion is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Its flames burst forth,
it is a blazing flame.
Ezekiel 8:3
8:3 He stretched out the form
of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind
lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem
by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue
which provokes to jealousy was located.
Ezekiel 8:5
8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.
Ezekiel 23:25
23:25 I will direct
my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears,
and your survivors will die
by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.
Ezekiel 36:5
36:5 therefore this is what the sovereign
Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’
Nahum 1:2
God Takes Vengeance against His Enemies
1:2 The Lord is a zealous and avenging God;
the Lord is avenging and very angry.
The Lord takes vengeance against his foes;
he sustains his rage against his enemies.
Zephaniah 1:18
1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them
in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment.
The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath.
Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”
Zephaniah 1:1
Introduction
1:1 This is the prophetic message that the Lord gave to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah. Zephaniah delivered this message during the reign of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah:
Colossians 1:22
1:22 but now he has reconciled you
by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –