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Zephaniah 2:11–3:2
Zephaniah 2:11–3:23 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 2:11-12 Yahweh will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
- B 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
- C 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
- D 2:15a This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me:
- C' 2:15b how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!
- C 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
- B' 2:15c every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
- B 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
- A' 3:1-2 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Yahweh; she drew not near to her God.
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