Zephaniah 3:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸“Just wait,” the Lord says. “Wait for the day when I rise to accuse the nations. I have made up my mind to gather nations and kingdoms in order to let them feel the force of my anger. The whole earth will be destroyed by the fire of my fury.

⁹“Then I will change the people of the nations, and they will pray to me alone and not to other gods. They will all obey me. ¹⁰Even from distant Ethiopia^[a] my scattered people will bring offerings to me.

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Footnotes

Zephaniah 3:10 Hebrew Cush: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).