Zep 2:12-15 | ESV | STEP | You also , O Cushites , shall be slain by my sword .

Zephaniah 2:12-15

12 ^aYou also, O Cushites,
shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
^band destroy Assyria,
and he ^cwill make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.
14 ^dHerds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts; ^{▼▼Hebrew beasts of every nation}
^feven the owl and the hedgehog ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain}
shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for ^hher cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the exultant city
ⁱthat lived securely,
that said in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
^ja lair for wild beasts!
^kEveryone who passes by her
hisses and ^lshakes his fist.