| 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. |
|
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. |
| 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. |
