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I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them. 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies. 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

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The Lord’s Rebuke to Moab and Ammon

“I’ve heard Moab’s insults
    and the curses from those Ammonites[a]
by which they defame my people
    and boast about their territory.
Therefore as I’m alive and living,” declares the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel,
    “Moab will surely become like Sodom,
        and the Ammonites[b] like Gomorrah,
a place overrun by weeds and salty marshes,
    unpopulated forever.
The survivors of my people will confiscate their property,
    and those who remain of my nation will inherit what was theirs.[c]
10 This they[d] will have in lieu of their pride,
    because they have insulted and mocked the people of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.
11 The Lord will incite them to terror,
    because he will cause all the gods of the earth to waste away.
They will worship him,
    every person in his own home,
        including even the coastlands of the nations.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:8 Lit. the descendants of Ammon; so also in v. 9.
  2. Zephaniah 2:9 Lit. the descendants of Ammon; so also in v. 9.
  3. Zephaniah 2:9 Cf. Obad 19-21
  4. Zephaniah 2:10 I.e. the people of Edom and Moab