Zephaniah Chapter 2    

¹Gather yourselves together like stubble, yes, gather together like stubble, O nation without shame,
  ²before the decree becomes reality (the day passes on like the chaff) before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the Day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
  ³Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden on the Day of Yahweh’s anger.
  ⁴For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon will become a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be uprooted.
  ⁵Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, so that there will be no inhabitant left.
  ⁶The seacoast will become pastures, with caves for shepherds and walled enclosures for flocks.
  ⁷And the coastland will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture on it. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, because Yahweh their God will visit them and restore their fortunes.
  ⁸“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon with which they have reproached my people and made boasts against their territory.
  ⁹Therefore as I live,” says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.”
  ¹⁰This they will get in return for their pride, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
  ¹¹Yahweh will be terrifying to them, for he will starve all the gods of the earth. All the coastlands of the nations will bow down to^a Him, each one from his own place.
  ¹²You also, O Cushites—slain by my sword are they!
  ¹³And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a desolation as dry as the wilderness.
  ¹⁴And herds will lie down in the middle of her, as well as all the animals of the nations. Both the desert owl and the screech owl will lodge in the tops of her pillars. Their calls will echo through the windows. Devastation will be on the thresholds, for he will lay bare the cedar beams.
  ¹⁵This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is none besides me.” What a desolation she has become, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and wave his hand in contempt.