Zephaniah 2:11
The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the gods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
12You Ethiopians, also shall be slain with my sword.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:38Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.
Psalms 22:27The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.
Psalms 72:8And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Psalms 86:9All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.
Psalms 117:1O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
Isaiah 2:2And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto 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 →