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Zephaniah 2:15  New English Translation

15 This is how the once-proud city will end up—
the city that was so secure.[a]
She thought to herself,[b] “I am unique! No one can compare to me!”[c]
What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live!
Everyone who passes by her taunts her[d] and shakes his fist.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:15 tn Heb “This is the proud city, the one that lives securely.” “This” refers to the previous description of how the city will turn out.
  2. Zephaniah 2:15 tn Heb “the one who says in her heart [or mind].”
  3. Zephaniah 2:15 tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.”
  4. Zephaniah 2:15 tn Heb “hisses”; or “whistles.”
  5. Zephaniah 2:15 sn Hissing (or whistling) and shaking the fist were apparently ways of taunting a defeated foe or an object of derision in the culture of the time.
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