MKJV - Zephaniah - 2

2:1  Gather yourselves together; yea, gather, O nation not desired;

2:2  before the birth of the decree, the day shall pass like the chaff; yet not before the hot anger of the LORD comes on you, yet not before the day of the LORD's anger comes on you.

2:3  Seek the LORD, all the meek of the earth who have done His justice; seek righteousness; seek meekness. It may be you shall be hidden in the day of the LORD's anger.

2:4  For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a ruin. They shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

2:5  Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you: Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will destroy you, so that no inhabitant survives.

2:6  And the sea coast will be pastures, meadows of shepherds, and folds for flocks.

2:7  And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed on them. In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening, for the LORD their God shall visit them and turn away their captivity.

2:8  I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the curses of the sons of Ammon, with which they have cursed My people and have magnified themselves on their border.

2:9  Therefore, as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah; a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a ruin forever. The remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them.

2:10  They shall have this for their pride, because they have cursed and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

2:11  The LORD will be frightening to them; for He will make all the gods of the earth lean; each man from his place and all the coastlands of the nations shall bow to Him.

2:12  You Ethiopians also shall be slain by My sword.

2:13  And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desert and dry like a desert.

2:14  And flocks shall lie down in her midst, all the beasts of a nation; both the pelican and the bittern shall roost in the capitals of its pillars; a voice shall sing at the window, ruin shall be at the doorsill, for he will bare the cedar-work.

2:15  This is the rejoicing city, dwelling confidently, who says in her heart, I am, and no other still is. How she has become a ruin, a resting-place for animals! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss; he shall wag his hand.