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The Book of Zephaniah, Chapter 2, Verse 12

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The LORD [will be] terrible unto 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.
King James Version
Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.
American Standard Version
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
New English Translation
“You Ethiopians will also die by my sword!”
World English Bible
You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness.
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And flocks shall lie down in the midst 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.
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This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, [and] wag his hand.
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Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
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She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
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Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
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The just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
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I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
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I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings.