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10 This is what they will get for their pride, because they have taunted and talked arrogantly against the people of the Lord of Armies. 11 The Lord will be terrifying to them, when he will starve[a] all the gods of the earth. Then all the distant nations will bow down to him, each of them in their own country.

12 You Cushites,[b] you also will die by my sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:11 The meaning of this term is uncertain.
  2. Zephaniah 2:12 Cush is the territory south of Egypt.

10 This is what they will get in return for their pride,(A)
    for insulting(B) and mocking
    the people of the Lord Almighty.(C)
11 The Lord will be awesome(D) to them
    when he destroys all the gods(E) of the earth.(F)
Distant nations will bow down to him,(G)
    all of them in their own lands.

Cush

12 “You Cushites,[a](H) too,
    will be slain by my sword.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:12 That is, people from the upper Nile region