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  • A Call to Repentance

    Gather together — yes, gather together,
    you shameless nation.
  • A Call to Repentance

    Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together,
    O [a]undesirable nation,
  • Gather before judgment begins,
    before your time to repent is blown away like chaff.
    Act now, before the fierce fury of the LORD falls
    and the terrible day of the LORD’s anger begins.
  • Before the decree is issued,
    Or the day passes like chaff,
    Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you,
    Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!
  • Seek the LORD, all who are humble,
    and follow his commands.
    Seek to do what is right
    and to live humbly.
    Perhaps even yet the LORD will protect you —
    protect you from his anger on that day of destruction.
    Judgment against Philistia
  • Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,
    Who have upheld His justice.
    Seek righteousness, seek humility.
    It may be that you will be hidden
    In the day of the Lord’s anger.
  • Gaza and Ashkelon will be abandoned,
    Ashdod and Ekron torn down.
  • Judgment on Nations

    For Gaza shall be forsaken,
    And Ashkelon desolate;
    They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday,
    And Ekron shall be uprooted.
  • And what sorrow awaits you Philistinesa
    who live along the coast and in the land of Canaan,
    for this judgment is against you, too!
    The LORD will destroy you
    until not one of you is left.
  • Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,
    The nation of the Cherethites!
    The word of the Lord is against you,
    O Canaan, land of the Philistines:
    “I will destroy you;
    So there shall be no inhabitant.”
  • The Philistine coast will become a wilderness pasture,
    a place of shepherd camps
    and enclosures for sheep and goats.
  • The seacoast shall be pastures,
    With [b]shelters for shepherds and folds for flocks.
  • The remnant of the tribe of Judah will pasture there.
    They will rest at night in the abandoned houses in Ashkelon.
    For the LORD their God will visit his people in kindness
    and restore their prosperity again.
    Judgment against Moab and Ammon
  • The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;
    They shall feed their flocks there;
    In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening.
    For the Lord their God will intervene[c] for them,
    And return their captives.
  • “I have heard the taunts of the Moabites
    and the insults of the Ammonites,
    mocking my people
    and invading their borders.
  • “I have heard the reproach of Moab,
    And the insults of the people of Ammon,
    With which they have reproached My people,
    And made arrogant threats against their borders.
  • Now, as surely as I live,”
    says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,
    “Moab and Ammon will be destroyed —
    destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.
    Their land will become a place of stinging nettles,
    salt pits, and eternal desolation.
    The remnant of my people will plunder them
    and take their land.”
  • Therefore, as I live,”
    Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
    “Surely Moab shall be like Sodom,
    And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah —
    Overrun[d] with weeds and saltpits,
    And a [e]perpetual desolation.
    The residue of My people shall plunder them,
    And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”
  • They will receive the wages of their pride,
    for they have scoffed at the people of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • This they shall have for their pride,
    Because they have reproached and made arrogant threats
    Against the people of the Lord of hosts.
  • The LORD will terrify them
    as he destroys all the gods in the land.
    Then nations around the world will worship the LORD,
    each in their own land.
    Judgment against Ethiopia and Assyria
  • The Lord will be awesome to them,
    For He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth;
    People shall worship Him,
    Each one from his place,
    Indeed all the shores of the nations.
  • “You Ethiopiansb will also be slaughtered
    by my sword,” says the LORD.
  • “You Ethiopians also,
    You shall be slain by My sword.”
  • And the LORD will strike the lands of the north with his fist,
    destroying the land of Assyria.
    He will make its great capital, Nineveh, a desolate wasteland,
    parched like a desert.
  • And He will stretch out His hand against the north,
    Destroy Assyria,
    And make Nineveh a desolation,
    As dry as the wilderness.
  • The proud city will become a pasture for flocks and herds,
    and all sorts of wild animals will settle there.
    The desert owl and screech owl will roost on its ruined columns,
    their calls echoing through the gaping windows.
    Rubble will block all the doorways,
    and the cedar paneling will be exposed to the weather.
  • The herds shall lie down in her midst,
    Every beast of the nation.
    Both the pelican and the bittern
    Shall lodge on the capitals of her pillars;
    Their voice shall sing in the windows;
    Desolation shall be at the threshold;
    For He will lay bare the cedar work.
  • This is the boisterous city,
    once so secure.
    “I am the greatest!” it boasted.
    “No other city can compare with me!”
    But now, look how it has become an utter ruin,
    a haven for wild animals.
    Everyone passing by will laugh in derision
    and shake a defiant fist.
  • This is the rejoicing city
    That dwelt securely,
    That said in her heart,
    “I am it, and there is none besides me.”
    How has she become a desolation,
    A place for beasts to lie down!
    Everyone who passes by her
    Shall hiss and shake his fist.

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