Zephaniah:2

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* Search yourselves and one another , O unfriendly people ; * before the decree is executed , [before ] the day passes as the chaff , before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you , before the day of the LORD 'S anger comes upon you . * Seek ye the LORD , all ye humble of the earth , who have wrought his judgment ; seek righteousness , seek humility : it may be ye shall be kept in the day of the LORD 'S anger . * For Gaza shall be forsaken , and Ashkelon a desolation : they shall spoil Ashdod at the noon day , and Ekron shall be rooted up . * Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast , the people of the Cherethites ! the word of the LORD [is ] against you ; O Canaan , the land of the Palistinians , I will cause thee to be destroyed until there shall be no inhabitant [left ]. * And the sea coast shall be for dwellings [and ] cottages for pastors , and sheepfolds . * And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah ; they shall feed thereupon : in the houses of Ashkelon they shall sleep for the night ; for the LORD their God shall visit them and return their captives . * I have heard the reproaches of Moab , and the revilings of the sons of Ammon , by which they have dishonoured my people and magnified [themselves ] over their border . * Therefore [as ] I live , said the LORD of the hosts , [the ] God of Israel , Surely Moab shall be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah , [even ] a field of nettles and saltpits and a perpetual desolation ; the remnant of my people shall spoil them , and the remnant of my Gentiles shall inherit them . * This shall come upon them for their pride because they have reproached and magnified [themselves ] against the people of the LORD of the hosts . * The LORD [shall be ] terrible against them for he will weaken all the gods of the earth ; and each one from his place shall worship him , [even ] all the isles of the Gentiles . * Ye Ethiopians also , ye [shall be ] slain by my sword . * And he will stretch out his hand over the north [wind ] and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation [and ] dry like a wilderness . * And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her , all the beasts of the Gentiles ; both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in her thresholds ; [their ] voice shall sing in the windows ; desolation [shall be ] in the gates : for her cedar [work ] shall be uncovered . * 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 ! anyone that passes by her shall hiss [and ] wag his hand .:

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