Zephaniah 2:13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
KJV
Et extendet manum suam super aquilonem, et perdet Assur, et ponet speciosam in solitudinem, et in invium, et quasi desertum.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐκτενεῖ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ βορρᾶν καὶ ἀπολεῖ τὸν Ἀσσύριον, καὶ θήσει τὴν Νινευὴ εἰς ἀφανισμὸν ἄνυδρον ὡς ἔρημον·
LXX
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.
ASV
וְ/יֵ֤ט יָד/וֹ֙ עַל צָפ֔וֹן וִֽ/יאַבֵּ֖ד אֶת אַשּׁ֑וּר וְ/יָשֵׂ֤ם אֶת נִֽינְוֵה֙ לִ/שְׁמָמָ֔ה צִיָּ֖ה כַּ/מִּדְבָּֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Prophecy
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Isa 10:5 — O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
- Isa 10:12 — Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of
- Isa 10:16 — Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
- Jer 49:33 — And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
- Jonah 1:2 — Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
- Nah 1:1 — The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Nah 1:1 — The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Nah 1:8 — But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
- Nah 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
- Nah 3:7 — And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
- Nah 3:18 — Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
- Zech 10:11 — And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of