26 This is the purpose that is purposed
    concerning the whole earth,
and this is (A)the hand that is stretched out
    over all the nations.

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The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    (A)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,[a]
    to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:9 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike

(A)“I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    (B)so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without a man, without an inhabitant.
(C)I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;
    (D)you will accept correction.
Then your[a] dwelling would not be cut off
    according to all that I have appointed against you.’[b]
But (E)all the more they were eager
    to make all their deeds corrupt.

“Therefore (F)wait for me,” declares the Lord,
    “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.
For my decision is (G)to gather nations,
    to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation,
    all my burning anger;
for in the fire of my jealousy
    (H)all the earth shall be consumed.

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  1. Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her
  2. Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her

25 Therefore (A)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
    and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
    and (B)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were (C)as refuse
    in the midst of the streets.
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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12 You stretched out (A)your right hand;
    the earth swallowed them.

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