Jubilee2000 - Zephaniah - 2

2:1  Search yourselves and one another, O unfriendly people;

2:2  before the decree is executed, [before] the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.

2:3  Seek ye the LORD, all ye humble of the earth, who have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek humility: it may be ye shall be kept in the day of the LORD'S anger.

2:4  For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall spoil Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

2:5  Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the people of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Palistinians, I will cause thee to be destroyed until there shall be no inhabitant [left].

2:6  And the sea coast shall be for dwellings [and] cottages for pastors, and sheepfolds.

2:7  And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon they shall sleep for the night; for the LORD their God shall visit them and return their captives.

2:8  I have heard the reproaches of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, by which they have dishonoured my people and magnified [themselves] over their border.

2:9  Therefore [as] I live, said the LORD of the hosts, [the] God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] a field of nettles and saltpits and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my Gentiles shall inherit them.

2:10  This shall come upon them for their pride because they have reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of the LORD of the hosts.

2:11  The LORD [shall be] terrible against them for he will weaken all the gods of the earth; and each one from his place shall worship him, [even] all the isles of the Gentiles.

2:12  Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.

2:13  And he will stretch out his hand over the north [wind] and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation [and] dry like a wilderness.

2:14  And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the Gentiles; both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in her thresholds; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the gates: for her cedar [work] shall be uncovered.

2:15  This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! anyone that passes by her shall hiss [and] wag his hand.: