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Chapter 2 |
| 1 | Gather
yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; |
| 2 |
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. |
| 3
| 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. |
| 4 | For Gaza shall be forsaken, and
Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron
shall be rooted up. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6
| And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for
shepherds, and folds for flocks. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | This shall
they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified
themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12
| Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
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| 13 | And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria;
and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. |
| 14 | 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. |
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15 | 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. |
