Zephaniah 2:12-14

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² You also, O Ethiopians,
    shall be slain by my sword.

¹³ And he will stretch out his hand against the north,
    and destroy Assyria;
and he will make Nin′eveh a desolation,
    a dry waste like the desert.
¹⁴ Herds shall lie down in the midst of her,
    all the beasts of the field;^[a]
the vulture^[b] and the hedgehog
    shall lodge in her capitals;
the owl^[c] shall hoot in the window,
    the raven^[d] croak on the threshold;
    for her cedar work will be laid bare.