Zephaniah 2:13-15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹³ He will also stretch out his hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,^(A)
dry as the desert.
¹⁴ Herds will lie down in the middle of it,
every kind of wild animal.^[a]
Both eagle owls^[b] and herons^[c]
will roost in the capitals of its pillars.
Their calls will sound^[d] from the window,
but devastation^[e] will be on the threshold,
for he will expose the cedar work.^[f]
15 This is the jubilant^(B) city
that lives in security,
that says to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
scoffs^[g] and shakes his fist.