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70 lines
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# Chapter 2
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1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together,
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O undesirable nation,
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2 Before the decree is issued,
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Or the day passes like chaff,
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Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you,
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Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!
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3 Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,
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Who have upheld His justice.
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Seek righteousness, seek humility.
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It may be that you will be hidden
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In the day of the Lord’s anger.
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4 For Gaza shall be forsaken,
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And Ashkelon desolate;
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They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday,
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And Ekron shall be uprooted.
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5 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,
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The nation of the Cherethites!
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The word of the Lord is against you,
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O Canaan, land of the Philistines:
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“I will destroy you;
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So there shall be no inhabitant.”
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6 The seacoast shall be pastures,
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With shelters for shepherds and folds for flocks.
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7 The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;
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They shall feed their flocks there;
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In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening.
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For the Lord their God will intervene for them,
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And return their captives.
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8 “I have heard the reproach of Moab,
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And the insults of the people of Ammon,
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With which they have reproached My people,
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And made arrogant threats against their borders.
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9 Therefore, as I live,”
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Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
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“Surely Moab shall be like Sodom,
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And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
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Overrun with weeds and saltpits,
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And a perpetual desolation.
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The residue of My people shall plunder them,
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And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”
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10 This they shall have for their pride,
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Because they have reproached and made arrogant threats
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Against the people of the Lord of hosts.
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11 The Lord will be awesome to them,
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For He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth;
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People shall worship Him,
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Each one from his place,
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Indeed all the shores of the nations.
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12 “You Ethiopians also,
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You shall be slain by My sword.”
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13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north,
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Destroy Assyria,
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And make Nineveh a desolation,
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As dry as the wilderness.
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14 The herds shall lie down in her midst,
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Every beast of the nation.
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Both the pelican and the bittern
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Shall lodge on the capitals of her pillars;
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Their voice shall sing in the windows;
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Desolation shall be at the threshold;
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For He will lay bare the cedar work.
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15 This is the rejoicing city
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That dwelt securely,
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That said in her heart,
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“I am it, and there is none besides me.”
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How has she become a desolation,
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A place for beasts to lie down!
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Everyone who passes by her
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Shall hiss and shake his fist. |