“At that time,
I will change
The speech of the people
To a pure speech.
All of them
May call
On the name of Yahweh.
They will serve him
With one accord.
From beyond the rivers
Of Ethiopia,
My suppliants,
My scattered ones,
Shall bring my offering.”
Yahweh, via Zephaniah, seems to indicate that there will be a universal conversion to Yahweh. He was going to change the varieties of speech into one pure language, so that all would call upon the name of Yahweh and serve him together. This was a very utopian ideal. All his scattered people would come from beyond the Ethiopian rivers to bring offerings to him.