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Therefore, as I live,” says the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab will become like Sodom
    and the Ammonites like Gomorrah:
a land filled with nettles and salt pits,
    a wasteland forevermore.
The remnant of my people will plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation will dispossess them.”
10 This will be the price they pay for their pride,
    inasmuch as they insulted and mocked
    the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will fill them with fear
    when he causes all the gods of the earth
    to waste away.
Then all the coasts and the islands of the nations[a]
    shall worship him,
    each from its own territory.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:11 The islands of the nations: the lands and people of the eastern Mediterranean, which the Palestinians never knew well. The idea is: “even the most distant lands.”