Zephaniah 2:9-11

New International Reader's Version

⁹So Moab will become like Sodom,”
    announces the Lord who rules over all.
    “Ammon will be like Gomorrah.
Weeds and salt pits will cover those countries.
    They will be dry and empty deserts forever.
Those who are still left alive among my people
    will take all their valuable things.
    So they will receive those lands as their own.
And that is just as sure as I am alive.”
    The Lord is the God of Israel.

¹⁰Moab and Ammon will be judged
    because they are so proud.
They made fun of the Lord’s people.
    They laughed at them.
¹¹The Lord who rules over all will terrify Moab and Ammon.
    He will destroy all the gods on earth.
Then distant nations will bow down to him.
    All of them will serve him in their own lands.