Zephaniah 2:13

He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

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WEBBE

He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

BSB

And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

KJV

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

ASV

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

BBE

And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

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וְיֵט ve·yet and he may stretch out H5186 יָדוֹ ya·do hand his H3027 עַל־ 'al- on H5921 צָפוֹן tza·fon [the] north H6828 וִיאַבֵּד vi·'a·bed so he may destroy H6 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 אַשּׁוּר 'a·shur Assyria H804 וְיָשֵׂם ve·ya·sem and he may make H7760 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 נִינְוֵה ni·ne·veh Nineveh H5210 לִשְׁמָמָה lish·ma·mah (into) a waste H8077 צִיָּה tzi·yah a dry region H6723 כַּמִּדְבָּר ka·mid·bar like the wilderness H4057

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 4–15

Those are really in a woful condition who have the word of the Lord against them, for no word of his shall fall to the ground. God will restore his people to their rights, though long kept from them. It has been the common lot of God's people, in all ages, to be reproached and reviled. God shall be worshipped, not only by all Israel, and the strangers who join them, but by the heathen. Remote nations must be reckoned with for the wrongs done to God's people. The sufferings of the insolent and haughty in prosperity, are unpitied and unlamented. But all the desolations of flourishing nations will make way for the overturning Satan's kingdom. Let us improve our advantages, and expect the performance of every promise, praying that our Father's name may be hallowed every where, over all the earth.

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AssyriaNineveh

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.