Zephaniah 2:13
King James Version
“And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, dry like a wilderness.”
Context
10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified against the people of the LORD of hosts.
11The LORD terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and shall worship him, every one from his place, all the isles of the heathen.
12Ye Ethiopians also, ye slain by my sword.
13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, dry like a wilderness.
14And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; voice shall sing in the windows; desolation in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
15This the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I and none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, wag his hand.