Zephaniah 2:7-9

International Children’s Bible

⁷ Your land will belong to the descendants of Judah who are left alive.
    There they will let their sheep eat grass.
At night they will sleep
    in the houses of Ashkelon.
The Lord their God will come to be with them.
    He will give them back their riches.

⁸ “I heard the country of Moab insult my people.
    The country of Ammon threatened to take their land.”
⁹ So the Lord of heaven’s armies, the God of Israel, says,
    “As surely as I live,
Moab will be destroyed like Sodom.
    Ammon will be destroyed like Gomorrah.^[a]
Their land will be covered with weeds and salt.
    It will be destroyed forever.
Those of my people who are left alive will take whatever they want from them.
    Those who are left from my nation will take their land.”