◄ Zephaniah 2:6 ►
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Good News Translation
Your land by the sea will become open fields with shepherd's huts and sheep pens.

New Revised Standard Version
And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Contemporary English Version
Your seacoast will be changed into pastureland and sheep pens.

New American Bible
You shall become fields for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle:

the sea.

Zephaniah 2:14,15 And flocks shall lie down in the midst thereof, all the beasts of the nations: and the bittern and the urchin shall lodge in the threshold thereof: the voice of the singing bird in the window, the raven on the upper post, for I will consume her strength. . . .

Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

Ezekiel 25:5 And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Context
The Judgment on the Philistines
…5Woe to you that inhabit the sea coast, O nation of reprobates: the word of the Lord upon you, O Chanaan, the land of the Philistines, and I will destroy thee, so that there shall not be an inhabitant. 6And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle:7And it shall be the portion of him that shall remain of the house of Juda, there they shall feed: in the houses of Ascalon they shall rest in the evening: because the Lord their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity.…
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17
And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.

Isaiah 7:25
And as for the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.

Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

Jeremiah 33:12
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall be again in this place that is desolate without man, and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Zephaniah 2:5
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