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2.6 KiB
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47 lines
2.6 KiB
Markdown
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## Seek Yahweh Before His Day of Anger
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###### 1
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Gather yourselves together, indeed, gather, O nation without shame,
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###### 2
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Before the decree takes effect-- The day passes like the chaff-- Before the burning anger of Yahweh comes upon you, Before the day of Yahweh's anger comes upon you.
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###### 3
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Seek Yahweh, All you humble of the earth Who have worked His justice; Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of Yahweh's anger.
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###### 4
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For Gaza will be forsaken And Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod will be driven out at noon, And Ekron will be uprooted.
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###### 5
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Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, The nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; And I will make you perish So that there will be no inhabitant.
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###### 6
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So the seacoast will be pastures, _With_ caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.
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###### 7
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And the coast will be For the remnant of the house of Judah; They will feed upon it. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening; For Yahweh their God will care for them And restore their fortune.
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###### 8
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"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 territory.
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###### 9
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Therefore, as I live," declares Yahweh of hosts, The God of Israel, "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah-- A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them, And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."
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###### 10
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This they will have in return for their pride because they have reproached and magnified _themselves_ against the people of Yahweh of hosts.
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###### 11
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Yahweh will be fearsome to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his _own_ place.
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###### 12
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"You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword."
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###### 13
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And He will stretch out His hand against the north And cause Assyria to perish, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness.
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###### 14
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Flocks will lie down in her midst, All the beasts of the nation; Both the pelican and the hedgehog Will lodge in 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.
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###### 15
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This is the exultant city Which inhabits securely, Who says in her heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become an object of horror, A resting place for beasts! Everyone who passes by her will hiss _And_ wave his hand _in contempt_.
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