Zephaniah 2:4-15

4 aFor Gaza shall be deserted,
and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;
Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon,
and Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Woe to byou inhabitants of the seacoast,
you nation of cthe Cherethites!
dThe word of the Lord is against you,
eO Canaan, land of the Philistines;
and I will destroy you funtil no inhabitant is left.
6 gAnd you, O seacoast, hshall be pastures,
with meadows
Or caves
for shepherds
and folds for flocks.
7 jThe seacoast shall become the possession
of kthe remnant of the house of Judah,
lon which they shall graze,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God mwill be mindful of them
and nrestore their fortunes.
8 “I have heard othe taunts of Moab
and pthe revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
and made boasts qagainst their territory.
9Therefore, ras I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel,
Moab shall become slike Sodom,
and the Ammonites tlike Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10This shall be their lot in return ufor their pride,
because they taunted and boasted
against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11The Lord will be awesome against them;
vfor he will famish all the gods of the earth,
and wto him shall bow down,
each in its place,
all xthe lands of the nations.
12 yYou also, O Cushites,
shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
zand destroy Assyria,
and he aawill make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.
14 abHerds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts;
Hebrew beasts of every nation

adeven 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 afher cedar work will be laid bare.
15This is the exultant city
agthat lived securely,
that said in her heart,
I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
aha lair for wild beasts!
aiEveryone who passes by her
hisses and ajshakes his fist.
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