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

    Gather together, gather yourselves together,
    you shameful nation,
  • Judgments on Judah’s Enemies

    Gather yourselves together, yes, gather,
    O nation without shame,
  • 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 takes effect —
    The day passes like the chaff —
    Before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you,
    Before the day of the LORD’S anger comes 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 the LORD,
    All you humble of the earth
    Who have carried out His ordinances;
    Seek righteousness, seek humility.
    Perhaps you will be hidden
    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.
  • For Gaza will be abandoned
    And Ashkelon a desolation;
    Ashdod will be driven out at noon
    And Ekron will be uprooted.
  • 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 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;
    And I will destroy you
    So that there will be no inhabitant.
  • The land by the sea will become pastures
    having wells for shepherds
    and pens for flocks.
  • So the seacoast will be pastures,
    With caves 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 will be
    For the remnant of the house of Judah,
    They will pasture on it.
    In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening;
    For the LORD their God will care for them
    And restore their fortune.
  • 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.
  • “I have heard the taunting of Moab
    And the revilings of the sons of Ammon,
    With which they have taunted My people
    And become arrogant against their territory.
  • 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,” declares the LORD of hosts,
    The God of Israel,
    “Surely Moab will be like Sodom
    And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah —
    A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    And a perpetual desolation.
    The remnant of My people will plunder them
    And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”
  • This is what they will get in return for their pride,
    for insulting and mocking
    the people of the Lord Almighty.
  • This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant 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 terrifying to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his own place.
  • Cush

    “You Cushites,b too,
    will be slain by my sword.”
  • “You also, O Ethiopians, will 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 He will make Nineveh a desolation,
    Parched like the 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.
  • Flocks will lie down in her midst,
    All beasts which range in herds;
    Both the pelican and the hedgehog
    Will lodge in the tops of her pillars;
    Birds will sing in the window,
    Desolation will be on the threshold;
    For He has laid bare 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 exultant city
    Which dwells securely,
    Who says in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one besides me.”
    How she has become a desolation,
    A resting place for beasts!
    Everyone who passes by her will hiss
    And wave his hand in contempt.

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