Zep 2:13 | CPDV | STEP | And he will extend his hand over the North, and he will destroy Assur. And he will set the Beautiful in the wilderness, and in an impassable place, and like a desert.

‏ Zephaniah 2:13

13 And he will extend his hand over the North, and he will destroy Assur. And he will set the Beautiful in the wilderness, and in an impassable place, and like a desert. ^{▼▼2:13‘Speciosam’ is capitalized after the Vercellone 1861 edition of the Vulgate, and because it clearly is used, as if a name, to refer to something specific. It could also, in this context, be loosely translated as ‘what was once called Beautiful,’ or, ‘the so-called Beautiful,’ since it is clear from subsequent verses that this place was not beautiful to God.(Conte)
,} ^{▼▼2:13 The beautiful city: Ninive, which was destroyed soon after this, viz., in the sixteenth year of the reign of Josias.(Challoner)}