Zephaniah 2:6

Your seacoast will become pastures, with meadows for shepherds and sheep pens for flocks.

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In The King James Version

And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

In Context

5What disaster is coming to you Philistines, you sea-people who live along the coast and in the land of Canaan! The Lord has passed judgment on you. I will destroy you—there will be no survivors.

7It will belong to those who remain of the people of Judah. They will graze their flocks there, and the shepherds will sleep in the abandoned houses of Ashkelon. For the Lord their God will be with them and make them prosperous again.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pasture; fattened livestock and goats will feed among the ruins of the rich.

Ezekiel 25:5I will make Rabbah a camel pasture, and Ammon a sheep-pen. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Zephaniah 2:5-8

The Punishment of the Philistines. ( b. c. 612.) 4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. 6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. 7 And the coast shall be for the… Read the whole commentary →

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