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\v 1 Rally yourselves together and gather, unashamed nation—
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\v 2 before the decree takes effect and that day passes like the chaff,
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\q before the fierce anger of Yahweh's wrath comes upon you, before the day of the wrath of Yahweh comes upon you.
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\v 3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble people on earth who obey his decrees!
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\q Seek righteousness. Seek humility,
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\q and perhaps you will be protected in the day of Yahweh's wrath.
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\v 4 For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon will turn into a devastation.
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\q They will drive out Ashdod at noon, and they will uproot Ekron!
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\v 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh has spoken against you,
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\q2 Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until no inhabitant remains.
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\v 6 So the seacoast will become a grazing land for shepherds and for sheep pens.
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\v 7 The coastal region will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah,
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\q2 who will shepherd their flocks there. Their people will lie down in the evening in the houses of Ashkelon,
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\q2 for Yahweh their God will care for them and restore their fortunes.
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\v 8 "I have heard the taunts of Moab and the reviling of the people of Ammon
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\q when they taunted my people and violated their borders.
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\v 9 Therefore, as I live—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel,—
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\q Moab will become like Sodom, and the people of Ammon like Gomorrah;
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\q a a place of nettles and a salt pit, deserted forever.
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\q But the remnant of my people will plunder them, and the remainder of my nation will take possession of them."
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\v 10 This will happen to Moab and Ammon because of their pride, since they taunted and mocked the people of Yahweh of hosts.
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\v 11 Then they will fear Yahweh, for he will taunt all the gods of the earth. Everyone will worship him, everyone
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from his own place, from every seashore.
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\v 12 You Cushites also will be pierced by my sword,
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\v 13 and God's hand will attack the north and destroy Assyria,
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\q so that Nineveh will become an abandoned devastation, as dry as the desert.
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\v 14 Then herds will lie down there, every animal of the nations,
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\q both the desert owl and the hedgehog will rest in the top of her columns.
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\q A call will sing out from the windows; rubble will be in the doorways; her carved cedar beams will be exposed.
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\v 15 This is the exultant city that lived without fear,
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\q that said in her heart, "I am, and nothing is my equal."
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\q How she has become a horror, a place for beasts to lie down in.
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\q Every one that passes by her will hiss and shake his fist at her.
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