Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And as for the sea coast, it shall be herdsmen's cottages and sheep folds:
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Holman Bible
with caves for shepherds and folds for sheep.
International Standard Version
The Philistine coast will become meadows for shepherds and sheep pens.
A Conservative Version
And the seacoast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
American Standard Version
And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
Amplified
So the [depopulated] seacoast shall be pastures,
With [deserted] meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.
Bible in Basic English
And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.
Darby Translation
and the sea-coast shall be cave-dwellings for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Julia Smith Translation
And the region of the sea was a dwelling, and a cutting off of the shepherds and sheepfolds.
King James 2000
And the seacoast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you, O region of the sea, shall become pastures [and] meadows [for] shepherds and sheep pens [for the] flocks.
Modern King James verseion
And the sea coast will be pastures, meadows of shepherds, and folds for flocks.
NET Bible
The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.
New Heart English Bible
The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
The Emphasized Bible
So shall the line of the sea become a meadow, the wells of shepherds, and the folds of flocks;
Webster
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
World English Bible
The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the sea-coast hath been habitations, Cottages for shepherds, and folds for a flock.
Themes
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Philistines » Prophecies against
Philistines » Prophecies respecting » Utter destruction by pharaoh king of egypt
Interlinear
Chebel
Naveh
Ra`ah
References
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Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Zephaniah 2:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment Of Judah's Enemies
5 Woe unto you that dwell upon the sea coast, ye murderous people: the word of the LORD shall come upon you. O Canaan, thou land of the Philistines, I will destroy thee so that there shall no man dwell in thee any more. 6 And as for the sea coast, it shall be herdsmen's cottages and sheep folds: 7 yea, it shall be a portion for such as remain of the house of Judah, to feed thereupon. In the houses of Ashkelon shall they rest toward the night: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the sheep eat their appointed fodder; and the rich mens' lands, that were laid waste, shall strangers devour.
Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer shall be waste: the cattle shall lie there, and no man shall fraye them away.
Ezekiel 25:5
As for Rabbah, I will make of it a stall for camels, and of Ammon a sheepfold: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Zephaniah 2:14-15
The flocks and all the beasts of the people shall lie in the midst of it, pelicans and storks shall abide in the upper posts of it, fowls shall sing in the windows, and ravens shall sit upon the balks, for the borders of cedar shall be riven down.