12“You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword.”

13And He will stretch out His hand against the north
         And destroy Assyria,
         And He will make Nineveh a desolation,
         Parched like the wilderness.

14Flocks will lie down in her midst,
         All beasts which range in herds;
         Both the pelican and the hedgehog
         Will lodge in the tops of her pillars;
         Birds will sing in the window,
         Desolation will be on the threshold;
         For He has laid bare the cedar work.

15This is the exultant city
         Which dwells securely,
         Who says in her heart,
         “I am, and there is no one besides me.”
         How she has become a desolation,
         A resting place for beasts!
         Everyone who passes by her will hiss
         And wave his hand in contempt.

NASB ©1995

American Standard Version
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You Ethiopians, also shall be slain with my sword.

Darby Bible Translation
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be the slain of my sword.

English Revised Version
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye Cushites also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

World English Bible
You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

Young's Literal Translation
Also ye, O Cushim, pierced of My sword are they.Caesarea. Strato's Tower.
The Arabian interpreter thinks the first name of this city was Hazor, Joshua 11:1. The Jews, Ekron, Zephaniah 2:4. "R. Abhu saith," (he was of Caesarea,) "Ekron shall be rooted out"; this is Caesarea, the daughter of Edom, which is situated among things profane. She was a goad, sticking in Israel, in the days of the Grecians. But when the kingdom of the Asmonean family prevailed, it overcame her, &c. R. Josi Bar Chaninah saith, What is that that is written, 'And Ekron shall be as a Jebusite?' (Zech …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

The Indwelling and Outgoing Works of God.
"And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth."--Psalm xxxiii. 6. The thorough and clear-headed theologians of the most flourishing periods of the Church used to distinguish between the indwelling and outgoing works of God. The same distinction exists to some extent in nature. The lion watching his prey differs widely from the lion resting among his whelps. See the blazing eye, the lifted head, the strained muscles and panting breath. One can see that the crouching lion is laboring intensely. …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

Of the Decrees of God.
Eph. i. 11.--"Who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will."--Job xxiii. 13. "He is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth." Having spoken something before of God, in his nature and being and properties, we come, in the next place, to consider his glorious majesty, as he stands in some nearer relation to his creatures, the work of his hands. For we must conceive the first rise of all things in the world to be in this self-being, the first conception …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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