Zephaniah 2 · Verse 10

Zephaniah 2:10

This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.
Zephaniah 2:10, King James Version

Zephaniah 2:10 in other translations

BSBThis they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
WEBThis they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of Armies.
ASVThis shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.
YLTThis is to them for their arrogancy, Because they have reproached, And they magnify themselves against the people of Jehovah of Hosts.
DARBYThis shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.
BBEThis will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.
WebsterThis shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

What does Zephaniah 2:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. (Compare Zep 2:8). their pride--in antithesis to the meek (Zep 2:3).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Because they have reproached - See on Zep 2:8 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Zephaniah 2:4-15

Those are really in a woful condition who have the word of the Lord against them, for no word of his shall fall to the ground. God will restore his people to their rights, though long kept from them. It has been the common lot of God's people, in all ages, to be reproached and reviled. God shall be worshipped, not only by all Israel, and the strangers who join them, but by the heathen. Remote nations must be…

Read the full comment on Zephaniah 2:4-15 →

Zephaniah 2:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זֹ֥אתzotthisH2063
לָהֶ֖םla.Hem[will belong] to them
תַּ֣חַתTa.chatin place ofH8478
גְּאוֹנָ֑םge.'o.Nampride theirH1347
כִּ֤יkiforH3588
חֵֽרְפוּ֙che.re.Futhey reproachedH2778
וַיַּגְדִּ֔לוּvai.yag.Di.luand they magnified themselvesH1431
עַל\־'al-onH5921
עַ֖ם'am[the] people ofH5971
יְהוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068
צְבָאֽוֹת\׃tze.va.'otof hostsH6635

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Cross references for Zephaniah 2:10

  • Isaiah 16:6

    We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

  • Jeremiah 48:29

    We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

  • Zephaniah 2:8

    I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

  • Exodus 9:17

    As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?

  • Daniel 4:37

    Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

  • Exodus 10:3

    And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • 1 Peter 5:5

    Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

  • Isaiah 37:22-29

    This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel. I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. …

  • Daniel 5:20-23

    But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

  • Isaiah 10:12-15

    Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

  • Obadiah 1:3

    The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

  • Ezekiel 38:14-18

    Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? …

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for.
8; Isa 16:6; Jer 48:29; Da 4:37; 5:20-23; Ob 1:3; 1Pe 5:5
and magnified.
Ex 9:17; 10:3; Isa 10:12-15; 37:22-29; Eze 38:14-18

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Context

  • Zephaniah 2:9

    Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

  • Zephaniah 2:10

    This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.

  • Zephaniah 2:11

    The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

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Zephaniah 2:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Esto les vendrá por su soberbia, porque afrentaron, y se engrandecieron contra el pueblo de Jehová de los ejércitos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Voilà ce qu’ils auront pour leur orgueil, car ils ont outragé le peuple de l’ Éternel des armées et se sont exaltés contre lui.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Solches wird ihnen für ihren Hochmut zuteil, weil sie das Volk Jehovas der Heerscharen geschmäht und wider dasselbe großgetan haben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Hoc eis eveniet pro superbia sua, quia blasphemaverunt et magnificati sunt super populum Domini exercituum.