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Zephaniah 2:11-13
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11 I will fiercely attack.
Then every god on this earth
    will shrink to nothing,
and everyone of every nation
will bow down to me,
    right where they are.

Judgment on Ethiopia

12 (A) People of Ethiopia,[a]
the sword of the Lord
    will slaughter you!

Judgment on Assyria

13 (B) The Lord will reach to the north
to crush Assyria
    and overthrow Nineveh.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2.12 Ethiopia: The Hebrew text has “Cush,” which was a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.
  2. 2.13 Nineveh: The capital of Assyria; Nineveh was protected by a moat filled with water from the nearby Tigris River.
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Zephaniah 2:11-13
King James Version

11 The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

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