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Zephaniah 2:6

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The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

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Zephaniah 2:6 in other translations

And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Zephaniah 2:6 · American Standard Version

Zephaniah 2:6 in context

  1. 4For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
  2. 5Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.
  3. 6The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
  4. 7The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.
  5. 8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.