Zephaniah:2

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* Collect your thoughts , aye collect them , O nation , depressed ! * Ere yet the decree , have given birth , like chaff , the day , have vanished , ere yet shall come upon you , the glow of the anger of Yahweh , ere yet shall come upon you , the day of the anger of Yahweh . * Seek Yahwehall ye lowly of the land , who have wrought , what he appointed , seek righteousness , seek humility , peradventure , ye shall be concealed , in the day of the anger of Yahweh ? * For , Gaza , forsaken , shall be , and , Ashkelon , a desolation , Ashdod ! at high noon , shall they drive her forth , and , Ekron , be uprooted : * Alas ! for the inhabitants of the line of the sea , the nation of Kerethim , The word of Yahweh , is against you , O Canaan of the land of the Philistines , therefore will I destroy thee , to the last inhabitant . * So shall the line of the sea become a meadow , the wells of shepherds , and the folds of flocks ; * And the line shall belong to the remnant of the house of Judah , Thereon , shall they feed their flocks , In the houses of Ashkelon , shall they , at eventide , lie down , for Yahweh their God will visit them , and bring their captives back . * I have heard the reproach of Moab , and the revilings of the sons of Ammon , who have reproached my people , and have magnified themselves up to their bounds . * Wherefore , as I live , declareth Yahweh of hosts , God of Israel , Surely , Moab , like Sodom , shall become , and , the sons of Ammon , like Gomorrah , a possession for the thorn , and a pit of salt , Yea a desolation , unto times age-abiding : The remnant of my people , shall make of them a prey , and , the residue of my nation , shall inherit them . * This , shall they have , instead of their pride , because they reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of hosts . * Terrible will Yahweh be against them , for he hath caused to waste away all the gods of the earth , that men may bow down to him , every one from his place , all the coastlands of the nations : * Even ye Ethiopians , the slain of my sword were they ! * And may he stretch out his hand against the North , and destroy Assyria , and may he make of Nineveh a desolation , dry as the desert ! * So shall lie down in her midstflocks , each living thing of a nation , both pelican and bittern , in her capitals , shall roost , a voice , shall resound in the window , the bustard , on the sill , for he hath destroyed , hath laid bare . * This , is the city exultant , that sat secure , that said in her heart , I ,

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