Zephaniah 2:14

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Summary

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

Flocks

Upper lintels

Amos 9:1

The cedar

Jeremiah 22:14

Bible References

Flocks

So the seacoast will be pastures,
With caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.

And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

But

pelican and hedgehog will possess it,

And owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.

And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “

Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.

Upper lintels

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said,
“Smite the capitals so that the thresholds will shake,
And break them on the heads of them all!
Then I will slay the rest of them with the sword;
They will not have a fugitive who will flee,
Or a refugee who will escape.

The cedar

Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house
With spacious upper rooms,
And cut out its windows,

Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’