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ZEPHANIAH
- I have heard the reproach of Moab,
- And the revilings of the children of Ammon,
- Whereby they have reproached my people,
- And magnified themselves against their border.
- Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
- Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah,
- Even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation:
- The residue of my people shall spoil them,
- And the remnant of my people shall possess them.
- This shall they have for their pride,
- Because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.
- The Lord will be terrible unto them:
- For he will famish all the gods of the earth;
- And men shall worship him, every one from his place,
- Even all the isles of the heathen.
- Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
- And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria;
- And will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
- And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations:
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