Judgment on Cush (The South)

Zephaniah 2:12

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Therefore, as I live," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, "Mo'av will become like S'dom and the people of 'Amon like 'Amora, a land covered with nettles and salt pits, desolate forever. The remnant of my people will plunder them, the survivors in my nation will inherit them."

This is what they will earn for their pride, for having reviled and boasted against the people of ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

ADONAI will be fearsome against them, for he will make all the earth's gods waste away. Then all the coasts and islands of the nations will worship him, each from its place.

"You too, Ethiopians, will be put to death by my sword."

He will stretch out his hand against the north; he will destroy Ashur; he will make Ninveh desolate, as dry as the desert.

Herds will lie down in it, and all kinds of wild animals too - jackdaws and owls will roost on her columns, voices screeching in the windows, desolation on the doorsteps, for its cedarwork is stripped bare.

This is the city, once so joyful, whose people felt themselves secure, who used to say to herself, "I am [the greatest]! I have no rival." What a ruin she has become a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone passing by her hisses and shakes his fist!

Judgment on Cush (The South)

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