Zephaniah 2:6 (DRB)

Passage

And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle:

Nearby Context

Zephaniah 2:4 For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ascalon shall be a desert, they shall cast out Azotus at noonday, and Accaron shall be rooted up.

Zephaniah 2:5 Woe to you that inhabit the sea coast, O nation of reprobates: the word of the Lord upon you, O Chanaan, the land of the Philistines, and I will destroy thee, so that there shall not be an inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2:6 And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle:

Zephaniah 2:7 And it shall be the portion of him that shall remain of the house of Juda, there they shall feed: in the houses of Ascalon they shall rest in the evening: because the Lord their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity.

Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon, with which they reproached my people, and have magnified themselves upon their borders.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "coast", "shall", "resting", "place", "shepherds", "folds", and "cattle". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "coast" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "Woe to you that inhabit the sea..." into verse 7's "And it shall be the portion of...", so "coast" and "shall" belong inside that flow. In Zephaniah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "coast" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.