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Zephaniah 2:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, as I live – this is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies, the God of Israel – Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah: a place overgrown with weeds, a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the remainder of my nation will dispossess them.

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But they will swoop down on the Philistine flank to the west. Together they will plunder the people of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.


All its soil will be a burning waste of sulphur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.


For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain. But Moab  will be trampled in his place as straw is trampled in a dung pile.


Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns   – this is the  Lord’s declaration – so no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily as a temporary resident.


About Moab,  this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Woe to Nebo,  because it is about to be destroyed; Kiriathaim will be put to shame;  it will be taken captive. The fortress will be put to shame and dismayed!


Look up, and look round. They all gather together; they come to you. As I live’ – this is the  Lord’s declaration – ‘you will wear all your children  as jewellery, and put them on as a bride does.


For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.   ,


The remnant  of Israel will no longer do wrong or tell lies; a deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouths. They will pasture and lie down, with nothing to make them afraid.


Herds will lie down in the middle of it, every kind of wild animal. Both eagle owls  and herons will roost in the capitals of its pillars. Their calls will sound  from the window, but devastation  will be on the threshold, for he will expose the cedar work.


The coastland will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; they will find pasture there. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the Lord their God will return to them and restore their fortunes.


The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites for three crimes, even four, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.


As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbours,’  says the Lord, ‘no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.


As I live – this is the King’s declaration; the Lord of Armies is his name   – the king of Babylon  will come like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.


Yet as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,


About the Ammonites,  this is what the Lord says: Does Israel have no sons? Is he without an heir? Why then has Milcom  , dispossessed Gad and his people settled in their cities?


Hazor will become a jackals’ den, a desolation for ever. No one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.


The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Moab for three crimes, even four, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.


‘Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the diseases the Lord has inflicted on it.


Let all humanity be silent  before the Lord, for from his holy dwelling he has roused himself.’





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