12You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by my sword.


In Context

9 Therefore as I live, said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

11 The LORD will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

12 You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by my sword.

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

14 And flocks shall lie down in the middle of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.

Zephaniah 2:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:12"You too, O Cushites, will be slain by my sword."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:12Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:12Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:12You Ethiopians, also shall be slain with my sword.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be the slain of my sword.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12Ye Cushites also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12Also ye, O Cushim, pierced of My sword are they.