Zephaniah 2:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And [the Lord] will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation, dry as the desert. [Isa. 10:12; Nah. 1:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹³ He will stretch out his hand against the north and will cause Assyria to perish. Let him make Nineveh a desolation, a desolate place like the wilderness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And he will extend his hand over the North, and he will destroy Assur. And he will set the Beautiful in the wilderness, and in an impassable place, and like a desert.

Zephaniah 2:13 Cross References

Nahum 3:7

Then all who see you will shrink from you and say, “Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?

Nahum 1:1

An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

Isaiah 10:12

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.

Nahum 3:15

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!

Micah 5:6

They shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; they shall rescue us from the Assyrians if they come into our land or tread within our border.

Isaiah 11:11

On that day the Lord will again raise his hand to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

Isaiah 10:5

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

Isaiah 14:26

This is the plan that is planned concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

Isaiah 37:37

Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor shall become a lair of jackals, an everlasting waste; no one shall live there, nor shall anyone settle in it.

Jonah 1:2

“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Jonah 3:2

“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

Zephaniah 1:4

I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests,