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Zeph.|2:1|-||1a|Gather yourselves together, yes, gather,O nation that has no shame,
Zeph.|2:2|-|Before the decree has effect,(The day passes like chaff)
Before there comes upon youThe burning anger of Jehovah,
Before there comes upon youThe day of Jehovah’s anger.
Zeph.|2:3|-||a|Seek Jehovah,All you meek of the earth,
Who have performed His judgments.Seek righteousness;
Seek meekness;Perhaps you will be hidden
In the day of Jehovah’s anger.
Zeph.|2:4|-|For |a|Gaza will be a forsaken city,And Ashkelon will become a desolation;
As for Ashdod, they will drive it out at noontime,And Ekron will be rooted up.
Zeph.|2:5|-|Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast,O nation of Cherethites!
The word of Jehovah is against you,O Canaan, O land of the Philistines:
I will destroy you so that there will be no inhabitant.
Zeph.|2:6|-|And the seacoast will be pastures with shepherds’ cavesAnd folds for flocks.
Zeph.|2:7|-|And the area will beFor the |a|remnant of the house of Judah;
They will feed their flocks upon them.In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening,
For Jehovah their God will visit themAnd turn again their captivity.
Zeph.|2:8|-|I have heard the reproaching of |a|MoabAnd the revilings of the children of |b|Ammon,
By which they have reproached My peopleAnd magnified themselves against their border.
Zeph.|2:9|-|Therefore as I live,Declares Jehovah of hosts,
The God of Israel,Moab will surely be like Sodom,
And the children of Ammon like Gomorrah,A possession of scrubs
And salt pitsAnd a perpetual desolation;
The remnant of My people will spoil them,And the residue of My nation will inherit them.
Zeph.|2:10|-|This will they have for their pride, for they reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.
Zeph.|2:11|-|Jehovah will be terrible to them, for He will make all the gods of the earth vanish, and all the coastlands of the nations will |a|worship Him, each from his own place.
Zeph.|2:12|-|You |1a|Cushites alsoWill be slain by My sword.
Zeph.|2:13|-|And He will stretch out His hand against the northAnd will destroy |a|Assyria,
And will make |b|Nineveh a desolationAnd a desert, like the wilderness.
Zeph.|2:14|-|And herds will stretch out in the midst of her,And animals of every kind;
Both the pelican and the porcupineWill lodge in her capitals.
Their voice will sing in the windows;Desolation is upon the threshold;
For He has laid the cedar work bare.
Zeph.|2:15|-||a|This is the jubilant cityThat dwelt securely,
That said in her heart, I am,And there is none besides me.
How she has become a desolation,A place for animals to stretch out!
Everyone who passes by her will hissAnd wave his hand at her.
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