Zephaniah:2

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* Come together and hold assembly , O shameless nation , * before you are driven away like the drifting chaff , before there comes upon you the fierce anger of the LORD , before there comes upon you the day of the wrath of the LORD . * Seek the LORD , all you humble of the land , who do his commands ; seek righteousness , seek humility ; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the wrath of the LORD . * For Gaza shall be deserted , and Ash 'kelon shall become a desolation ; Ashdod 's people shall be driven out at noon , and Ekron shall be uprooted . * Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast , you nation of the Cher 'ethites ! The word of the LORD is against you , O Canaan , land of the Philistines ; and I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left . * And you , O seacoast , shall be pastures , meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks . * The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah , on which they shall pasture , and in the houses of Ash 'kelon they shall lie down at evening . For the LORD their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes . * "I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites , how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory . * Therefore , as I live ," says the LORD of hosts , the God of Israel , "Moab shall become like Sodom , and the Ammonites like Gomor 'rah , a land possessed by nettles and salt pits , and a waste for ever . The remnant of my people shall plunder them , and the survivors of my nation shall possess them ." * This shall be their lot in return for their pride , because they scoffed and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts . * The LORD will be terrible against them ; yea , he will famish all the gods of the earth , and to him shall bow down , each in its place , all the lands of the nations . * You also , O Ethiopians , shall be slain by my sword . * And he will stretch out his hand against the north , and destroy Assyria ; and he will make Nin 'eveh a desolation , a dry waste like the desert . * Herds shall lie down in the midst of her , all the beasts of the field ; the vulture and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals ; the owl shall hoot in the window , the raven croak on the threshold ; for her cedar work will be laid bare . * This is the exultant city that dwelt secure , that said to herself , "I am and there is none else ." What a desolation she has become , a lair for wild beasts ! Every one who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist .

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