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12 (A)You also, O Cushites,
    shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
    (B)and destroy Assyria,
and he (C)will make Nineveh a desolation,
    a dry waste like the desert.
14 (D)Herds shall lie down in her midst,
    all kinds of beasts;[a]
(E)even the owl and the hedgehog[b]
    shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
    devastation will be on the threshold;
    for (F)her cedar work will be laid bare.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation
  2. Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain