Zephaniah 2:11

New Catholic Bible

¹¹The Lord will fill them with fear
    when he causes all the gods of the earth
    to waste away.
Then all the coasts and the islands of the nations^[a]
    shall worship him,
    each from its own territory.

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Footnotes

Zephaniah 2:11 The islands of the nations: the lands and people of the eastern Mediterranean, which the Palestinians never knew well. The idea is: “even the most distant lands.”

Zephaniah 2:11

King James Version

¹¹The 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.

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Zephaniah 2:11

New International Version

¹¹The Lord will be awesome^(A) to them
when he destroys all the gods^(B) of the earth.^(C)
Distant nations will bow down to him,^(D)
all of them in their own lands.