Zephaniah 2:11
LORD will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:38which ate the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection.
Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to LORD, and all the kinfolk of the nations shall worship before thee.
Psalms 72:8He shall also have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Psalms 86:9All nations whom thou have made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD, and they shall glorify thy name.
Psalms 117:1O praise LORD, all ye Gentiles, laud him, all ye peoples.
Isaiah 2:2And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of LORD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it.
Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 2:9-12
The Punishment of Various Nations. ( b. c. 612.) 8 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. 9 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 salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.… Read the whole commentary →