This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts.
The Moabites and Ammonites were both of the posterity of Lot; their countries joined, and, both adjoining to Israel, they are here put together in the prophecy against them. I. They are both charged with the same crime, and that was reproaching and reviling the people of God and triumphing in their calamities (Zep 2:8): They have reproached my people; while God's people kept close...
Commenting on Zephaniah 2:8-11
This shall they have for their pride This calamity shall come upon their land, the land of the Moabites and Ammonites, for their pride, which often goes before a fall; and has frequently been the cause of the ruin of kingdoms and states, and of particular persons; and indeed seems to have been the first sin of the apostate angels, and of fallen man.
(Compare Zep 2:8). their pride--in antithesis to the meek (Zep 2:3).