Berean Standard Bible

Zephaniah 2:12-15

12“You too, O Cushites,1 will be slain by My sword.”

13And He will stretch out His hand against the northand destroy Assyria;He will make Nineveh a desolation,as dry as a desert.14Herds will lie down in her midst,creatures of every kind.2Both the desert owl and screech owl3will 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 citythat 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 herhisses and shakes his fist.

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Notes

1. Zephaniah 2:12 That is, people from the upper Nile region ↩
2. Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation ↩
3. Zephaniah 2:14 The precise identification of the animals rendered desert owl and screech owl is uncertain. ↩

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