Verse 15
In Zephaniah’s day Nineveh was proud, carefree, and apparently impregnable. Its residents boasted of being citizens of the most important city in the world (cf. Isaiah 10:12). Yet in the future it would become a desolate place for beasts rather than barons. Passersby would ridicule the pride of Nineveh verbally by reviling it and bodily by shaking their fists at it after its fall (cf. Nahum 3:19).
Motyer summarized five principles that Zephaniah taught in this section (Zephaniah 2:4-15). First, the Lord is the God of all the earth. Second, the Lord plans for the spiritual needs of the world. Third, the Lord is in charge of the whole historical process. Fourth, the Lord’s people are central to his world purposes. And fifth, the Lord is the fierce enemy of pride. [Note: Motyer, pp. 938-39.]
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