Zephaniah 2:8-10
International Standard Version
The Lord’s Rebuke to Moab and Ammon
8 “I’ve heard Moab’s insults
and the curses from those Ammonites[a]
by which they defame my people
and boast about their territory.
9 Therefore as I’m alive and living,” declares the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel,
“Moab will surely become like Sodom,
and the Ammonites[b] like Gomorrah,
a place overrun by weeds and salty marshes,
unpopulated forever.
The survivors of my people will confiscate their property,
and those who remain of my nation will inherit what was theirs.[c]
10 This they[d] will have in lieu of their pride,
because they have insulted and mocked the people of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:8 Lit. the descendants of Ammon; so also in v. 9.
- Zephaniah 2:9 Lit. the descendants of Ammon; so also in v. 9.
- Zephaniah 2:9 Cf. Obad 19-21
- Zephaniah 2:10 I.e. the people of Edom and Moab
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