2COLLECT YOUR thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves [in submission and see if there is no sense of shame and no consciousness of sin left in you], O shameless nation [not desirous or desired]!H7197H7197H1471H37002[The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind!] Therefore consider, before God's decree brings forth [the curse upon you], before the time [to repent] is gone like the drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes upon you--yes, before the day of the wrath of the Lord comes upon you!H2706H3205H3117H5674H4671H3808H2740H639H3068H935H3117H3068H639H9353Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will {and} have kept His commandments; seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the Lord's anger.H1245H3068H6035H776H6466H4941H1245H6664H1245H6038H194H5641H3117H3068H6394For [hear the fate of the Philistines:] Gaza shall be forsaken and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; the people of Ashdod shall be driven out at noonday and Ekron shall be uprooted.H5804H5800H831H8077H1644H795H6672H6138H61315Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites [in Philistia]! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.H1945H3427H3220H2256H1471H3774H1697H3068H3667H776H6430H6H34276And the seacoast shall be pastures, with [deserted] dwelling places {and} caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.H3220H2256H5116H3741H7462H1448H66297The seacoast shall belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall pasture their flocks upon it; in the houses of [deserted Philistine] Ashkelon shall they of Judah lie down in the evening. For the Lord their [Judah's] God shall visit them [for their relief] and restore them from their captivity.H2256H7611H1004H3063H7462H1004H831H7257H6153H3068H430H6485H7725H7622H76228I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites by which they have reproached My people, and magnified themselves {and} made boasts against their territory.H8085H2781H4124H1421H1121H5983H2778H5971H1431H13669Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles {and} wild vetches and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people shall make a prey of them and what is left of My nation shall possess them.H2416H5002H3068H6635H430H3478H4124H5467H1121H5983H6017H4476H2738H4379H4417H5704H5769H8077H7611H5971H962H3499H1471H515710This shall they have for their pride, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.H1347H2778H1431H5971H3068H663511The Lord will be terrible to them, for He will make lean {and} famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship Him, every one from his place, even all the isles {and} coastlands of the nations.H3068H3372H7329H430H776H7812H376H4725H339H147112You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by My sword.H3569H1992H2491H271913And [the Lord] will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation, dry as the desert.H5186H3027H6828H6H804H7760H5210H8077H6723H405714Herds shall lie down in the midst of [Nineveh], all the [wild] beasts of the nations {and} of every kind; both the pelican and the hedgehog shall lodge on the upper part of her [fallen] pillars; the voice [of the nesting bird] shall sing in the windows; desolation {and} drought shall be on the thresholds, for her cedar paneling will He lay bare.H5739H7257H8432H2416H1471H6893H7090H3885H3730H6963H7891H2474H2721H5592H6168H73115This is the joyous {and} exultant city that dwelt carelessly [feeling so secure], that said in her heart, I am and there is none beside me. What a desolation she has become, a lair for [wild] beasts! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss and wave his hand [indicating his gratification].H5947H5892H3427H983H559H3824H657H8047H2416H4769H5674H8319H5128H3027
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