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Foreground close gleaming gold and silver pieces powerless on bare ground, distant broad red-orange fire horizon beneath dark sky, no bodies or divine figure.
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Zephaniah 1:18

Gold Cannot Deliver

The Day When Wealth Cannot Save · Zephaniah 1

Story guide: Precious metals contrast with the oracle's consuming fire; the scene is prophetic symbolism.

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18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the day of Yahweh’s wrath, and in the fire of his jealousy all the earth will be consumed; for he will make a complete, indeed sudden, end of all the inhabitants of the earth.

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