Zephaniah 3:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹“Then I will change the people of the nations, and they will pray to me alone and not to other gods. They will all obey me. ¹⁰Even from distant Ethiopia^[a] my scattered people will bring offerings to me. ¹¹At that time you, my people, will no longer need to be ashamed that you rebelled against me. I will remove everyone who is proud and arrogant, and you will never again rebel against me on my sacred hill.^[b]

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Footnotes

Zephaniah 3:10 Hebrew Cush: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).
Zephaniah 3:11 Mount Zion (see Zion in Word List).