Zeph 2
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Be you gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation;
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before you become as the flower that passes away, before the anger of the Lord come
upon you, before the day of the anger of the Lord come upon you.
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Seek you the Lord, all you meek of the earth; do judgement, and seek justice, and
answer Gr. them accordingly; that you may be hid in the day of the anger of the Lord.
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For Gaza shall be utterly spoiled, and Ascalon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall
be cast forth at noon-day, and Accaron shall be rooted up.
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Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbours of the Cretans! the word
of the Lord is against you, O Chanaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy
you out of your dwelling-place.
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And Crete shall be a pasture of flocks, and a fold of sheep.
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And the sea coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture
upon them in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the
children of Juda; for the Lord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their
captivity.
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I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith
they have reviled my people, and magnified themselves against my coasts.
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Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as
Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus shall be left as a heap
of the threshing-floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall
plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.
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Gr. this to them This is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproached
and magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty.
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The Lord shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the
nations of the earth; and they shall worship him every one from his place, even all
the islands of the nations.
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You Ethiopians also are the slain of my sword.
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And he shall stretch forth his hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and
make Nineve a dry wilderness, even as a desert.
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And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the
midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts
shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness
was as as cedar.