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  • Judah and Jerusalem Judged Along With the Nations
    Judah Summoned to Repent

    Gather together, gather yourselves together,
    you shameful nation,
  • A Call to Repentance

    Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
  • before the decree takes effect
    and that day passes like windblown chaff,
    before the Lord’s fierce anger
    comes upon you,
    before the day of the Lord’s wrath
    comes upon you.
  • 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.
  • Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,
    you who do what he commands.
    Seek righteousness, seek humility;
    perhaps you will be sheltered
    on the day of the Lord’s anger.
  • 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.
  • Philistia

    Gaza will be abandoned
    and Ashkelon left in ruins.
    At midday Ashdod will be emptied
    and Ekron uprooted.
  • The Judgment on the Philistines

    For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
  • Woe to you who live by the sea,
    you Kerethite people;
    the word of the Lord is against you,
    Canaan, land of the Philistines.
    He says, “I will destroy you,
    and none will be left.”
  • 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.
  • The land by the sea will become pastures
    having wells for shepherds
    and pens for flocks.
  • And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
  • That land will belong
    to the remnant of the people of Judah;
    there they will find pasture.
    In the evening they will lie down
    in the houses of Ashkelon.
    The Lord their God will care for them;
    he will restore their fortunes.a
  • 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.
  • Moab and Ammon

    “I have heard the insults of Moab
    and the taunts of the Ammonites,
    who insulted my people
    and made threats against their land.
  • The Judgment on Moab and Ammon

    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.
  • Therefore, as surely as I live,”
    declares the Lord Almighty,
    the God of Israel,
    “surely Moab will become like Sodom,
    the Ammonites like Gomorrah —
    a place of weeds and salt pits,
    a wasteland forever.
    The remnant of my people will plunder them;
    the survivors of my nation will inherit their land.”
  • 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.
  • This is what they will get in return for their pride,
    for insulting and mocking
    the people of the Lord Almighty.
  • This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
  • The Lord will be awesome to them
    when he destroys all the gods of the earth.
    Distant nations will bow down to him,
    all of them in their own lands.
  • 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.
  • Cush

    “You Cushites,b too,
    will be slain by my sword.”
  • The Judgment on Ethiopia and Assyria

    Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
  • Assyria

    He will stretch out his hand against the north
    and destroy Assyria,
    leaving Nineveh utterly desolate
    and dry as the desert.
  • And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
  • Flocks and herds will lie down there,
    creatures of every kind.
    The desert owl and the screech owl
    will roost on her columns.
    Their hooting will echo through the windows,
    rubble will fill the doorways,
    the beams of cedar will be exposed.
  • 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.
  • This is the city of revelry
    that lived in safety.
    She said to herself,
    “I am the one! And there is none besides me.”
    What a ruin she has become,
    a lair for wild beasts!
    All who pass by her scoff
    and shake their fists.
  • 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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