70 lines
2.4 KiB
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70 lines
2.4 KiB
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# Chapter 2
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1 Gather yourselves together;
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gather together, undesirable nation,
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2 before the decree takes effect
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and the day passes like chaff,
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before the burning of the Lord’s anger overtakes you,
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before the day of the Lord’s anger overtakes you.
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3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth,
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who carry out what he commands.
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Seek righteousness, seek humility;
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perhaps you will be concealed
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on the day of the Lord’s anger.
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4 For Gaza will be abandoned,
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and Ashkelon will become a ruin.
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Ashdod will be driven out at noon,
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and Ekron will be uprooted.
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5 Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast,
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nation of the Cherethites!
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The word of the Lord is against you,
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Canaan, land of the Philistines:
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I will destroy you until there is no one left.
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6 The seacoast will become pasturelands
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with caves for shepherds and pens for sheep.
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7 The coastland will belong
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to the remnant of the house of Judah;
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they will find pasture there.
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They will lie down in the evening
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among the houses of Ashkelon,
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for the Lord their God will return to them
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and restore their fortunes.
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8 I have heard the taunting of Moab
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and the insults of the Ammonites,
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who have taunted my people
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and threatened their territory.
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9 Therefore, as I live—
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this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel—
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Moab will be like Sodom
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and the Ammonites like Gomorrah:
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a place overgrown with weeds,
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a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
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The remnant of my people will plunder them;
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the remainder of my nation will dispossess them.
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10 This is what they get for their pride,
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because they have taunted and acted arrogantly
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against the people of the Lord of Armies.
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11 The Lord will be terrifying to them
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when he starves all the gods of the earth.
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Then all the distant coasts and islands of the nations
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will bow in worship to him,
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each in its own place.
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12 You Cushites will also be slain by my sword.
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13 He will also stretch out his hand against the north
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and destroy Assyria;
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he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,
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dry as the desert.
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14 Herds will lie down in the middle of it,
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every kind of wild animal.
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Both eagle owls and herons
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will roost in the capitals of its pillars.
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Their calls will sound from the window,
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but devastation will be on the threshold,
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for he will expose the cedar work.
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15 This is the jubilant city
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that lives in security,
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that says to herself:
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I exist, and there is no one else.
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What a desolation she has become,
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a place for wild animals to lie down!
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Everyone who passes by her
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scoffs and shakes his fist. |