Zephaniah 2:11 · KJV
“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. {famish: Heb. make lean}”
— Zephaniah 2:11
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified {themselves} against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Ye Ethiopians also, ye {shall be} slain by my sword.
Zephaniah 2 — Context
Therefore {as} I live, saith 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 saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified {themselves} against the people of the LORD of hosts.
11The 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. {famish: Heb. make lean}
12Ye Ethiopians also, ye {shall be} slain by my sword.
13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, {and} dry like a wilderness.
Cross References
Zechariah 14:9-21
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Micah 4:1-3
But in the last days it shall come to pass, {that} the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
Zechariah 13:2
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, {that} I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Psalms 117:1-2
O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
Genesis 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Psalms 138:4
All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
Isaiah 2:2-4
And it shall come to pass in the last days, {that} the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. {established: or, prepared}
Isaiah 24:14-16
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.