1 Gather yourselves together like stubble,
yes, gather together like stubble, O nation without shame,
2 before 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.
3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land
Seek righteousness. Seek humility.
It may be that you will be hidden
and Ashkelon will become a desolation.
They will drive out Ashdod at noonday,
5 Woe 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.
6 The seacoast will become pastures,
with caves for shepherds and walled enclosures for flocks.
for the remnant of the house of Judah.
they will lie down in the evening,
because Yahweh their God will visit them
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.
“surely Moab will be as Sodom,
and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah,
and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of my people will plunder them,
and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.”
10 This they will get in return for their pride,
because they have taunted and boasted
against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
11 Yahweh will be terrifying to them,
for he will starve all the gods of the earth.
All the coastlands of the nations
12 You also, O Cushites—slain by my sword are they!
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
He will make Nineveh a desolation
14 And 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.
“I am, and there is none besides me.”
What a desolation she has become,
a place for animals to lie down in!
will hiss and wave his hand in contempt.
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