Zep 2:9 | HCSB | STEP | Therefore , as I live – this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts , the God of Israel – Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah – a place overgrown with weeds , a salt pit , and a perpetual wasteland . The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.

Zephaniah 2:9

9 Therefore, as I live –
this is the declaration of the Lord of ^{▼▼Hosts/hosts: Military forces consisting of God's angels, sometimes including the sun, moon, and stars, and occasionally, Israel}Hosts
,
the God of Israel –

Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah ^b –
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.