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\v 1 Rally yourselves together and gather, unashamed nation—
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\v 2 before the decree enacts a result, before the 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 Yahweh's wrath 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 weedy place 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 inherit from 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 in the middle of Assyria, every beast of the nations,
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\q and birds and owls will nest in the tops of her pillars.
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\q There will be a chirping sound in the windows and ravens will call on their doorsteps, for he has exposed the cedar beams.
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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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