Zephaniah 2:12
New International Version
“You Cushites, too, will be slain by my sword.”

New Living Translation
“You Ethiopians will also be slaughtered by my sword,” says the LORD.

English Standard Version
You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.

Berean Standard Bible
“You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”

King James Bible
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

New King James Version
“You Ethiopians also, You shall be slain by My sword.”

New American Standard Bible
“You also, Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword.”

NASB 1995
“You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword.”

NASB 1977
“You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword.”

Legacy Standard Bible
“You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword.”

Amplified Bible
“You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword.”

Christian Standard Bible
You Cushites will also be slain by my sword.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You Cushites will also be slain by My sword.

American Standard Version
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Also you Kushites are killed by the sword

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Ye Ethiopians also are the slain of my sword.

Contemporary English Version
People of Ethiopia, the sword of the LORD will slaughter you!

Douay-Rheims Bible
You Ethiopians, also shall be slain with my sword.

English Revised Version
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Even you, the people from Sudan, you will also die by my sword."

Good News Translation
The LORD will also put the people of Ethiopia to death.

International Standard Version
"Now as for you, Cush, you will surely be slain by my sword!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye Ethiopians also, Ye shall be slain by My sword.

Literal Standard Version
“Also you, O Cushim, they [are] pierced of My sword.”

Majority Standard Bible
“You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”

New American Bible
You too, O Cushites, shall be slain by the sword of the LORD.

NET Bible
"You Ethiopians will also die by my sword!"

New Revised Standard Version
You also, O Ethiopians, shall be killed by my sword.

New Heart English Bible
You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye Cushites also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

World English Bible
You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

Young's Literal Translation
Also ye, O Cushim, pierced of My sword are they.

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Context
The Judgment on Cush and Assyria
12“You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.” 13And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.…

Cross References
Isaiah 18:1
Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,

Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks--to Egypt's shame.

Isaiah 20:5
Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

Ezekiel 30:4
A sword will come against Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt, its wealth is taken away, and its foundations are torn down.

Ezekiel 30:24
I will strengthen the arms of Babylon's king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.


Treasury of Scripture

You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by my sword.

Ethiopians.

Isaiah 18:1-7
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: …

Isaiah 20:4,5
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt…

Isaiah 43:3
For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

my.

Psalm 17:13
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

Isaiah 10:5
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

Isaiah 13:5
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

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Zephaniah 2
1. An exhortation to repentance.
4. The judgment of the Philistines,
8. of Moab and Ammon,
12. of Ethiopia,
13. and of Assyria.














Verses 12-15. - 5. The judgment shall fall upon the Ethiopians and Assyrians, representing the south and north. Verse 12. - Ethiopians; Cushites. These are named as the most remote inhabitants of the south with which the Israelites were acquainted (Ezekiel 38:5). Ye shall be slain by my sword; the slain of my sword are they, the second person being dropped, as one cannot address the dead (Orelli). The Lord's sword is the instrument which he uses to effect his purpose of punishment (comp. Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 34:5; Isaiah 66:16). The Ethiopians are reckoned among the forces of Egypt (2 Chronicles 12:3; Nahum 3:9, etc.). The prediction had a fulfilment when the Assyrians conquered Egypt, and again under Nebuchadnezzar. It shall have a more sublime accomplishment when the sword of the Spirit shall reduce the utmost south to the dominion of Christ (see Isaiah 45:14; Psalm 68:31). The commencement of this conversion is seen in the chamberlain of Queen Candace (Acts 8:27, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You too,
אַתֶּ֣ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

O Cushites,
כּוּשִׁ֔ים (kū·šîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3569: Cushite -- descendant of Cush

will
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

be slain
חַֽלְלֵ֥י (ḥal·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2491: Pierced, polluted

by My sword.
חַרְבִּ֖י (ḥar·bî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword


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