Zephaniah 2:15

This is how the once-proud city will end up ¹  – the city that was so secure. ²  She thought to herself, ³  “I am unique! No one can compare to me!” ⁴  What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her ⁵  and shakes his fist. ⁶ 

1Ki 9:7,8; Job 27:23; Ps 52:6,7; Isa 10:12-14; Isa 14:4,5; Isa 22:2; Isa 47:7; Isa 47:8; La 1:1; La 2:1; La 2:15; Eze 27:36; Eze 28:2,9; Eze 29:3; Na 3:19; Mt 27:39; Re 18:7-10; Re 18:10-19

¹ tn Heb “this is the proud city.”

² tn Heb “the one that lived securely.”

³ tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

⁴ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.”

⁵ tn Heb “hisses”; or “whistles.”

⁶ 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.