Rise up, O Lord, confront them, overthrow them! By your sword deliver my life from the wicked,
Zephaniah 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 You also, O Cushites, shall be killed by my sword. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by My sword. [Isa. 18.] American Standard Version (1901) Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword. Common English Bible Moreover, you too, Cushites, will be pierced by my sword. Catholic Public Domain Version Even so, you Ethiopians, you will be executed by my sword. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You Ethiopians, also shall be slain with my sword. |
Rise up, O Lord, confront them, overthrow them! By your sword deliver my life from the wicked,
Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger— the club in their hands is my fury!
They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,
For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him with the groans of one mortally wounded.