Zephaniah 2:6 “So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepher…”

Zephaniah 2:6

So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

World English Bible

The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

American Standard Version

And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cotages for shepheardes and sheepefoldes.

Darby Translation

and the sea-coast shall be cave-dwellings for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Young's Literal Translation

And the sea-coast hath been habitations, Cottages [for] shepherds, and folds [for] a flock.

Bible in Basic English

And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.

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Cross references

“the sea”

Isaiah 17:2 Ezekiel 25:5 Zephaniah 2:14 Zephaniah 2:15

Isaiah 17:2 · BSB

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

Ezekiel 25:5 · BSB

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

Zephaniah 2:14 · BSB

Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will ex…

Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Also

Isaiah 5:17

Isaiah 5:17 · BSB

Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”

7The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.

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