Zep 2:15 | NET2full | 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—
the city that was so secure. ^{▼▼tn Heb “This is the proud city, the one that lives securely.” “This” refers to the previous description of how the city will turn out.}
She thought to herself, ^{▼▼tn Heb “the one who says in her heart [or mind].”} “I am unique! No one can compare to me!” ^{▼▼tn 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 ^{▼▼tn Heb “hisses”; or “whistles.”} and shakes his fist. ^{▼▼sn 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.}