Zephaniah 2:13-15

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He will also stretch out His hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,^(A)
dry as the desert.

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Herds will lie down in the middle of it,
every kind of wild animal.^(a)
Both the desert owl^(b) and the screech owl^(c)
will roost in the capitals of its pillars.
Their calls will sound^(d) from the window,
but devastation^(e) will be on the threshold,
for He will expose the cedar work.^(f)

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This is the self-assured^(B) city
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeers^(g) and shakes his fist.

Footnotes:

a. Zephaniah 2:14: Lit every wild animal of a nation

b. Zephaniah 2:14: Or the pelican

c. Zephaniah 2:14: Or the hedgehog

d. Zephaniah 2:14: Lit sing

e. Zephaniah 2:14: LXX, Vg read ravens

f. Zephaniah 2:14: Hb obscure

g. Zephaniah 2:15: Or hisses

Cross references:

A. Zephaniah 2:13: Nahum 2:8; Nahum 3:7

B. Zephaniah 2:15: Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 22:2; Isaiah 23:7; Isaiah 24:8; Isaiah 32:13