Zephaniah 2:8-15

Devotionals, Articles, and Bible Study Resources on Zephaniah 2:8-15

8“I have heard the reproach of Moab
and the insults of the Ammonites,
who have taunted My people
and threatened their borders.
9Therefore, as surely as I live,”
declares the LORD of Hosts,
the God of Israel,
“surely Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah —
a place of weeds and salt pits,
a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
10This they shall have in return for their pride,
for taunting and mocking the people
of the LORD of Hosts.
11The LORD will be terrifying to them
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then the nations of every shore
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.
12“You too, O Cushites,
will be slain by My sword.”
13And He will stretch out His hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a desolation,
as dry as a desert.
14Herds will lie down in her midst,
creatures of every kind.
Both the desert owl and screech owl
will roost atop her pillars.
Their calls will sound from the window,
but desolation will lie on the threshold,
for He will expose the beams of cedar.
15This carefree city
that dwells securely,
that thinks to herself:
“I am it, and there is none besides me,”
what a ruin she has become,
a resting place for beasts.
Everyone who passes by her
hisses and shakes his fist.
— Zephaniah 2:8-15

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