Zephaniah 3:6

     6. I had hoped that My people by My judgments on other nations would be led to amendment; but they are not, so blinded by sin are they.

      towers—literally, "angles" or "corners"; hence the towers built at the angles of their city walls. Under Josiah's long and peaceful reign the Jews were undisturbed, while the great incursion of Scythians into Western Asia took place. The judgment on the ten tribes in a former reign also is here alluded to.

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