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Zephaniah 3:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I have cut off nations; their corner towers  are destroyed. I have laid waste their streets, with no one to pass through. Their cities lie devastated, without a person, without an inhabitant.

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Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we will not desire  evil things as they did.  ,


These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction,  on whom the ends of the ages  , have come.


Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast, nation of the Cherethites!  , The word of the  Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy you until there is no one left.


I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.’


Then  the angel of the Lord   went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!


I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.


See, your house is left to you desolate.


Then I said, ‘Until when, Lord? ’  And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,


This is the plan  prepared for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out against all the nations.


Who is the person wise enough to understand this?  Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?


See, I have allotted these remaining nations to you as an inheritance for your tribes,  including all the nations I have destroyed, from the Jordan westwards to the Mediterranean Sea.





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