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¹ Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation that has no shame;² before the decree brings forth, [before] the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger comes on you.³ Seek Yahweh, all you meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you will be hid in the day of Yahweh's anger.

⁴ For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.⁵ Woe to the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy you, that there shall be no inhabitant.⁶ And the sea-coast shall be pastures, cisterns of shepherds and folds for flocks.⁷ And the portion shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed [their flocks] thereupon; in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening; for Yahweh their God will visit them, and bring back their destiny.

⁸ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.⁹ Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.¹⁰ This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of hosts.¹¹ Yahweh will be awesome to them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

¹² You Ethiopians also, they are slain by my sword.¹³ And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.¹⁴ And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals thereof; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he has laid bare the cedar-work.¹⁵ This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.