A Call to Repentance
1 Gather yourselves together;
gather together, undesirablenation,
2 before the decreetakes effect
and the day passes like chaff,
before the burning of theLord’s angerovertakes you,
before the day of theLord’s anger overtakes you.
3 Seek theLord,all you humbleof the earth,
who carry out what He commands.
Seek righteousness, seek humility;
perhaps you will be concealed
on the day of theLord’s anger.
Judgment against the Nations
4 For Gaza will be abandoned,
and Ashkelon will become a ruin.
Ashdod will be driven out at noon,
and Ekron will be uprooted.
5 Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast,
nation of the Cherethites!
The word of theLordis against you,
Canaan, land of the Philistines:
I will destroy you until there is no one left.
6 The seacoast will become pasturelands
with caves for shepherds and folds for sheep.
7 The coastland will belong
to the remnant of the house of Judah;
they will find pasture there.
They will lie down in the evening
among the houses of Ashkelon,
for theLordtheir God will return to them
and restore their fortunes.
8 I have heard the tauntingof Moab
and the insults of the Ammonites,
who have taunted My people
and threatened their territory.
9 Therefore, as I live —
this is the declaration of theLordof Hosts,
the God of Israel —
Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.
10 This is what they get for their pride,
because they have taunted and acted arrogantly
against the people of theLordof Hosts.
11 TheLordwill be terrifying to them
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.
12 You Cushites will also be slain by My sword.
13 He will also stretch out His hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,
dry as the desert.
14 Herds will lie down in the middle of it,
every kind of wild animal.
Both the desert owland the screech owl
will roost in the capitals of its pillars.
Their calls will soundfrom the window,
but devastationwill be on the threshold,
for He will expose the cedar work.
15 This is the self-assuredcity
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeersand shakes his fist.
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