Zefanya 2:13

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ia akan mengacungkan tangan-Nya terhadap Utara, akan membinasakan Asyur, dan akan membuat Niniwe menjadi tempat yang sunyi sepi, kering seperti padang gurun.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ia akan mengacungkan tangan-Nya terhadap Utara, akan membinasakan Asyur, dan akan membuat Niniwe menjadi tempat yang sunyi sepi, kering seperti padang gurun.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi akan dikedangkan-Nya tangan-Nya ke sebelah utara dan dibinasakan-Nya Asyur, dan dijadikan-Nya Ninewe suatu kerobohan kelak dan akan gurun yang kekeringan.

Contextual Overview

¹² Ye Morians also shall perishe with my sworde. ¹³ Yea he shall stretch out his hande ouer the north, and destroy Assur: As for Niniue he shall make it desolate, drye, and waste. ¹⁴ The flockes and all the beastes of the people shall lye in the middest of it, pellicanes and owles shal abide in the vpper postes of it, foules shall sing in the wyndowes, and desolation shalbe vpon the postes, for the Cedars are vncouered. ¹⁵ This is the proude and carelesse citie that sayd in her heart, I am, and there is els none besides me: O howe is she made so wast that the beastes lie in her? Who so goeth by, mocketh her, & poynteth at her with his finger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he will: Psalms 83:8, Psalms 83:9, Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 11:11, Ezekiel 31:3-18

will make: Nahum 1:1, Nahum 2:10, Nahum 2:11, Nahum 3:7, Nahum 3:15, Nahum 3:18, Nahum 3:19, Zechariah 10:10, Zechariah 10:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:11 - Nineveh Psalms 107:33 - turneth Isaiah 14:17 - made Jeremiah 49:33 - a dwelling Jeremiah 50:18 - as I Jonah 1:2 - Nineveh Jonah 3:2 - Nineveh Nahum 1:8 - the place

Cross-References

Genesis 10:6
The children of Ham, Chus: and Mizraim, and Phut, and Chanaan.

Isaiah 11:11
At the same time shall the Lord take in hande agayne to recouer the remnaunt of his people, whiche shalbe left aliue from the Assirians, Egyptians, Arabians, Morians, Elamites, Chaldees, Antiochians, & from the Ilandes of the sea,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he will stretch out his hand against the north,.... Either the Lord, or Nebuchadnezzar his sword; who, as he would subdue the nations that lay southward, he would lead his army northward against the land of Assyria, which lay to the north of Judea, as next explained:

and destroy Assyria; that famous monarchy, which had ruled over the kingdoms of the earth, now should come to an end, and be reduced to subjection to the king of Babylon:

and will make Nineveh a desolation; which was the capital city, the metropolis of the Assyrian monarchy: Nahum prophesies at large of the destruction of this city:

[and] dry like a wilderness; which before was a very watery place, situated by rivers, particularly the river Tigris; so that it was formerly like a pool of water, Nahum 2:6 but now should be dry like a heath or desert, Dr. Prideaux places the destruction of Nineveh in the twenty ninth year of Josiah's reign; but Bishop Usher earlier, in the sixteenth year of his reign; and, if so, then Zephaniah, who here prophesies of it, must begin to prophesy in the former part of Josiah's reign.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Zephaniah began by singling out Judah amid the general destruction, “I will also stretch out My Hand upon Judah” Zephaniah 1:4; he sums up the judgment of the world in the same way; “He will stretch out, or, Stretch He forth, “His Hand against the north and destroy Asshur, and make Nineveh a desolation.” Judah had, in Zephaniah’s time, nothing to fear from Assyria. Isaiah Isaiah 39:6 and Micah Micah 4:10 had already foretold, that the captivity would be to Babylon. Yet of Assyria alone the prophet, in his own person, expresses his own conformity with the mind of God. Of others he had said, “the word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, and I will destroy thee; As I live, saith the Lord, Moab shall be as Sodom. Ye also, O Ethiopians, the, slain of My sword are they.” Of Assyria alone, by a slight inflection of the word, he expresses that he goes along with this, which he announces.

He does not say as an imprecation, “May He stretch forth His hand;” but gently, as continuing his prophecies, “and,” joining on Asshur with the rest; only instead of saying “He will stretch forth,” by a form almost insulated in Hebrew, he says, “And stretch He forth His Hand.” In a way not unlike, David having declared God’s judgments, “The Lord trieth the righteous; and the wicked and the lover of violence doth His soul abhor, subjoineth, On the wicked rain He snares,” signifying that he (as all must be in the Day of judgment), is at one with the judgment of God. This is the last sentence upon Nineveh, enforcing that of Jonah and Nahum, yet without place of repentance now. He accumulates words expressive of desolateness. It should not only be a “desolation” Zephaniah 2:4, Zephaniah 2:9, as he had said of Ashkelon, Moab and Amman, but a dry, parched , unfruitful Isaiah 53:2 land. As Isaiah, under the same words, prophesies that the dry and desolate land should, by the Gospel, be glad, so the gladness of the world should become dryness and desolation. Asshur is named, as though one individual , implying the entireness of the destruction; all shall perish as one man; or as gathered into one and dependent upon one, its evil King. “The north” is not only Assyria, in that its armies came upon Judah from the north, but it stands for the whole power of evil (see Isaiah 14:13), as Nineveh for the whole beautiful, evil, world. The world with “the princes of this world” shall perish together.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zephaniah 2:13. He will - destroy Assyria — He will overthrow the empire, and Nineveh, their metropolitan city. See on Jonah and Nahum.