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Your land by the sea will become empty fields for shepherds and their sheep. Then the land will belong to the survivors from Judah. The Lord their God will remember the people from Judah and restore their fortunes. Then they will let their sheep eat the grass in those fields. In the evenings they will lie down in the empty houses of Ashkelon.

The Lord says, “I know what the people of Moab and Ammon did. They embarrassed my people. They took their land to make their own countries larger.

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The land by the sea will become pastures
    having wells for shepherds
    and pens for flocks.(A)
That land will belong
    to the remnant(B) of the people of Judah;
    there they will find pasture.
In the evening they will lie down
    in the houses of Ashkelon.
The Lord their God will care for them;
    he will restore their fortunes.[a](C)

Moab and Ammon

“I have heard the insults(D) of Moab(E)
    and the taunts of the Ammonites,(F)
who insulted(G) my people
    and made threats against their land.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:7 Or will bring back their captives