Zephaniah 3:6

The Lord’s Judgment will Purify

3:6 “I destroyed18 nations;

their walled cities19 are in ruins.

I turned their streets into ruins;

no one passes through them.

Their cities are desolate;20

no one lives there.21

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18	tn Heb “cut off.”
19	tn Heb “corner towers”; NEB, NRSV “battlements.”
20	tn This Hebrew verb (צָדָה, tsadah) occurs only here in the OT, but its meaning is established from the context and from an Aramaic cognate.
21	tn Heb “so that there is no man, without inhabitant.”