King James Version (KJV)
Zephaniah 2:12
“Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.”
Verse in context — Zephaniah 2
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of the LORD of hosts.
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.
Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness.
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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