2Gather yourselves together; gather together, undesirable nation,H7197H7197H1471H37002before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning of the LORD's anger overtakes you, before the day of the LORD's anger overtakes you.H2706H3205H3117H5674H4671H3808H2740H639H3068H935H3117H3068H639H9353Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth, who carry out what He commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the LORD's anger.H1245H3068H6035H776H6466H4941H1245H6664H1245H6038H194H5641H3117H3068H639
Judgment against the Nations
4For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon will become a ruin. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.H5804H5800H831H8077H1644H795H6672H6138H61315Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast, nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy you until there is no one left.H1945H3427H3220H2256H1471H3774H1697H3068H3667H776H6430H6H34276The seacoast will become pasturelands with caves for shepherds and folds for sheep.H3220H2256H5116H3741H7462H1448H66297The coastland will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; they will find pasture there. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will return to them and restore their fortunes.H2256H7611H1004H3063H7462H1004H831H7257H6153H3068H430H6485H7725H7622H76228I have heard the taunting of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their territory.H8085H2781H4124H1421H1121H5983H2778H5971H1431H13669Therefore, as I live— 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.H2416H5002H3068H6635H430H3478H4124H5467H1121H5983H6017H4476H2738H4379H4417H5704H5769H8077H7611H5971H962H3499H1471H515710This is what they get for their pride, because they have taunted and acted arrogantly against the people of the LORD of Hosts.H1347H2778H1431H5971H3068H663511The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then all the distant coastlands of the nations will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.H3068H3372H7329H430H776H7812H376H4725H339H147112You Cushites will also be slain by My sword.H3569H1992H2491H271913He will also stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolate ruin, dry as the desert.H5186H3027H6828H6H804H7760H5210H8077H6723H405714Herds will lie down in the middle of it, every kind of wild animal. Both the desert owl and the screech owl will roost in the capitals of its pillars. [Their] calls will sound from the window, but devastation will be on the threshold, for He will expose the cedar work.H5739H7257H8432H2416H1471H6893H7090H3885H3730H6963H7891H2474H2721H5592H6168H73115This is the self-assured city that lives in security, that thinks to herself: I am, and there is no one besides me. What a desolation she has become, a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone who passes by her jeers and shakes his fist.H5947H5892H3427H983H559H3824H657H8047H2416H4769H5674H8319H5128H3027
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