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Seek Yahweh Before His Day of Anger

¹ Gather yourselves together, indeed, ^(C1)gather,
O nation ^(C2)without ^(F1)shame,

² Before the decree ^(F1)takes effect—
The day passes ^(C1)like the chaff—
Before the ^(C2)burning anger of Yahweh comes upon you,
Before the ^(C3)day of Yahweh's anger comes upon you.

^3 (C1)Seek Yahweh,
All you ^(C2)humble of the ^(F1)earth
Who have worked His justice;
^(C3)Seek righteousness, seek humility.
Perhaps you will be ^(C4)hidden
In the day of Yahweh's anger.

⁴ For ^(C1)Gaza will be ^(F1)forsaken
And Ashkelon a desolation;
^(C1)Ashdod will be driven out at noon,
And ^(C1)Ekron will be uprooted.

⁵ Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,
The nation of the ^(F1)(C1)Cherethites!
The word of Yahweh is ^(C2)against you,
O ^(C3)Canaan, land of the Philistines;
And I will ^(C4)make you perish
So that there will be ^(C5)no inhabitant.

⁶ So the seacoast will be ^(C1)pastures,
With ^(F1)caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.

⁷ And the coast will be
For the ^(C1)remnant of the house of Judah;
They will ^(C2)feed upon it.
In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening;
For Yahweh their God will ^(C3)care for them
And ^(C4)restore their fortune.

⁸ "I have heard the ^(C1)reproach of Moab
And the ^(C2)revilings of the sons of Ammon,
With which they have reproached My people
And ^(C3)magnified themselves against their territory.

⁹ "Therefore, as I live," declares Yahweh of hosts,
The God of Israel,
"Surely ^(C1)Moab will be like ^(C2)Sodom
And the sons of ^(C3)Ammon like ^(C4)Gomorrah—
A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will ^(C5)plunder them,
And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."

¹² "You also, O ^(C1)Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword."

¹³ And He will ^(C1)stretch out His hand against the north
And cause ^(C2)Assyria to perish,
And He will make ^(C3)Nineveh a desolation,
Parched like the wilderness.

¹⁴ Flocks will lie down in her midst,
All the beasts of the nation;
Both the ^(F1)(C1)pelican and the hedgehog
Will lodge in ^(F2)the tops of her pillars;
Their voice will sing in the window,
Ruin will be on the threshold;
For He has laid bare the cedar work.

¹⁵ This is the ^(C1)exultant city
Which ^(C2)inhabits securely,
Who says in her heart,
"^(C3)I am, and there is no one besides me."
How she has become an object of ^(C4)horror,
A resting place for beasts!
^(C5)Everyone who passes by her will hiss
And wave his hand in contempt.