Zephaniah 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² You also, O Cushites, shall be killed by my sword.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by My sword. [Isa. 18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² Moreover, you too, Cushites, will be pierced by my sword.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Even so, you Ethiopians, you will be executed by my sword.

Zephaniah 2:12 Cross References

Isaiah 43:3

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.

Isaiah 13:5

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.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger— the club in their hands is my fury!

Psalm 17:13

Rise up, O Lord, confront them, overthrow them! By your sword deliver my life from the wicked,

Ezekiel 30:24

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.

Isaiah 20:3

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,