Gather
yourselves together, yea, gather together, O
nation not desired;
02 Before the decree bring forth, before the day
pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the
Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord's
anger come upon you.
03 Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth,
which have wrought his judgment; seek
righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall
be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.
04 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a
desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the
noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
05 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the
nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord
is against you; O Canaan, the land of the
Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there
shall be no inhabitant.
06 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and
cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
07 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the
house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the
houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the
evening: for the Lord their God shall visit them,
and turn away their captivity.
08 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the
revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they
have reproached my people, and magnified
themselves against their border.
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09 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom,
and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the
breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a
perpetual desolation: the residue of my people
shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people
shall possess them.
10 This shall they have for their pride, because
they have reproached and magnified themselves
against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he
will famish all the gods of the earth; and men
shall worship him, every one from his place, even
all the isles of the heathen.
12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my
sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the
north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh
a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her,
all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant
and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels
of it; their voice shall sing in the windows;
desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he
shall uncover the cedar work.
15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt
carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and
there is none beside me: how is she become a
desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!
every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag
his hand.
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