Zep 2:15 | TNotes | STEP | 2:15 utter ruin: The doom was so certain and irreversible (see Nah 1:14 ; 2:13 ; 3:19 ) that Zephaniah saw no future for Assyria or its capital. So complete was Nineveh’s devastation that the Greek historian Xenophon once passed by its ruins unaware that it was there. • laugh ... shake a defiant fist: Those who suffered under Assyria’s cruel empire would be glad seeing its demise.

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‏ Zephaniah 2:15

2:15 ^a utter ruin: The doom was so certain and irreversible (see Nah 1:14 ^b; 2:13 ^c; 3:19 ^d) that Zephaniah saw no future for Assyria or its capital. So complete was Nineveh’s devastation that the Greek historian Xenophon once passed by its ruins unaware that it was there.

• laugh ... shake a defiant fist: Those who suffered under Assyria’s cruel empire would be glad seeing its demise.