Zephaniah 2:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:12

For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

Isaiah 10:16

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

Isaiah 10:5

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

Isaiah 11:11

And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

Isaiah 14:26

This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

Isaiah 37:37

Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

Jeremiah 49:33

And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

Jonah 1:2

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

Jonah 3:2

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

Micah 5:6

And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.

Nahum 1:1

The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 3:15

There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

Nahum 3:7

And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

Zephaniah 1:4

And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,