12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
12 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.
12 Also you Ethiopians, you too will die - I'll see to it."
12 "You Ethiopians also, You shall be slain by My sword."
12 "You Ethiopians will also be slaughtered by my sword," says the Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Zephaniah 2:12
Commentary on Zephaniah 2:4-15
(Read Zephaniah 2:4-15)
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.