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be able to deliver them in the day of the L
ORD
’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by
the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
CHAPTER 2
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 L
ORD
come upon you, before
the day of the L
ORD
’S anger come upon you.
3
Seek ye the L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
’S anger.
4
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the
noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
5
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of
the Cherethites! the word of the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
of hosts.
11
The L
ORD
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.
CHAPTER 3
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
2
She obeyed not the voice; she received
not correction; she trusted not in the L
ORD
; she drew not near to her God.
3
Her princes within her
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