Zephaniah 2:6

Zephaniah 2:6

Judgment on Nations

4 For ^aGaza shall be forsaken,
And Ashkelon desolate;
They shall drive out Ashdod ^bat noonday,
And Ekron shall be uprooted.

5 Woe to the inhabitants of ^athe seacoast,
The nation of the Cherethites!
The word of the Lord is against you,
O ^bCanaan, land of the Philistines:
“I will destroy you;
So there shall be no inhabitant.”

6 The seacoast shall be pastures,
With¹ shelters for shepherds ^aand folds for flocks.

7 The coast shall be for ^athe remnant of the house of Judah;
They shall feed their flocks there;
In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God will ^bintervene for them,
And ^creturn their captives.

8 “I^a have heard the reproach of Moab,
And ^bthe insults of the people of Ammon,
With which they have reproached My people,
And ^cmade arrogant threats against their borders.

9 Therefore, as I live,”
Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Surely ^aMoab shall be like Sodom,
And ^bthe people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
^cOverrun¹ with weeds and saltpits,
And a¹ perpetual desolation.
The residue of My people shall plunder them,
And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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dwellings and cottages for shepherds—rather, "dwellings with cisterns" (that is, water-tanks dug in the earth) for shepherds. Instead of a thick population and tillage, the region shall become a pasturage for nomad shepherds' flocks. The Hebrew for "dug cisterns," Ceroth, seems a play on sounds, alluding to their name Cherethites (Zephaniah 2:5): Their land shall become what their national name implies, a land of cisterns. MAURER translates, "Feasts for shepherds' (flocks)," that is, one wide pasturage.

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