Zep 2:15 | NETfull | STEP | This is how the once-proud city will end up – the city that was so secure. She thought to herself, “I am unique! No one can compare to me!” What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her and shakes his fist.

Zephaniah 2:15

15 This is how the once-proud city will end up ^{▼▼ Heb “this is the proud city.”} –
the city that was so secure. ^{▼▼ Heb “the one that lived securely.”}
She thought to herself, ^{▼▼ Heb “the one who says in her heart.”} “I am unique! No one can compare to me!” ^{▼▼ Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.”}
What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live!
Everyone who passes by her taunts her ^{▼▼ Heb “hisses”; or “whistles.”} and shakes his fist. ^{▼▼ Hissing (or whistling) and shaking the fist were apparently ways of taunting a defeated foe or an object of derision in the culture of the time.}