Zephaniah 2:15

2:15 This is how the once-proud city will end up

the city that was so secure.

She thought to herself, “I am unique! No one can compare to me!”

What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live!

Everyone who passes by her taunts her and shakes his fist.


tn Heb “this is the proud city.”

tn Heb “the one that lived securely.”

tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.”

tn Heb “hisses”; or “whistles.”

sn Hissing (or whistling) and shaking the fist were apparently ways of taunting a defeated foe or an object of derision in the culture of the time.