8 "I have heard the taunting of Moab And the revilings of the sons of Ammon , With which they have taunted My people And become arrogant against their territory . 9 "Therefore , as I live ," declares the Lord of hosts , The God of Israel , "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah - A place possessed by nettles and salt pits , And a perpetual desolation . The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them." 10 This they will have in return for their pride , because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Lord of hosts . 11 The Lord will be terrifying to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth ; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his own place .
12 "You also , O Ethiopians , will be slain by My sword ." 13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria , And He will make Nineveh a desolation , Parched like the wilderness .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Zephaniah 2:8-13
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.