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<a href ="../amos/5.htm#4">Amos 5:4–15</a>; <a href ="../luke/13.htm">Luke 13:1–5</a>)</span><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Gather yourselves, gather together, <p class="indent2"> O shameful nation, <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>before the decree takes effect<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <p class="indent2"> and the day passes like chaff, <p class="indent1"> before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, <p class="indent2"> before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth <p class="indent2"> who carry out His justice. <p class="indent1"> Seek righteousness; seek humility. <p class="indent2"> Perhaps you will be sheltered <p class="indent2"> on the day of the LORD’s anger. <A name="5"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on the Philistines<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jeremiah/47.htm">Jeremiah 47:1–7</a>)</span><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For Gaza will be abandoned, <p class="indent2"> and Ashkelon left in ruins. <p class="indent1"> Ashdod will be driven out at noon, <p class="indent2"> and Ekron will be uprooted. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, <p class="indent2"> O nation of the Cherethites! <p class="indent1"> The word of the LORD is against you, <p class="indent2"> O Canaan, land of the Philistines: <p class="indent1">“I will destroy you, <p class="indent2"> and no one will be left.” <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, <p class="indent2"> with wells<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> for shepherds and folds for sheep. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; <p class="indent2"> there they will find pasture. <p class="indent1"> They will lie down in the evening <p class="indent2"> among the houses of Ashkelon, <p class="indent1"> for the LORD their God will attend to them <p class="indent2"> and restore their captives.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on Moab and Ammon<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../isaiah/16.htm">Isaiah 16:1–14</a>; <a href ="../jeremiah/48.htm">Jeremiah 48:1–47</a>)</span><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“I have heard the reproach of Moab <p class="indent2"> and the insults of the Ammonites, <p class="indent1"> who have taunted My people <p class="indent2"> and threatened their borders. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore, as surely as I live,” <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD of Hosts, <p class="indent2"> the God of Israel, <p class="indent1">“surely Moab will be like Sodom <p class="indent2"> and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—<p class="indent1"> a place of weeds and salt pits, <p class="indent2"> a perpetual wasteland. <p class="indent1"> The remnant of My people will plunder them; <p class="indent2"> the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.” <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This they shall have in return for their pride, <p class="indent2"> for taunting and mocking the people <p class="indent2"> of the LORD of Hosts. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The LORD will be terrifying to them <p class="indent2"> when He starves all the gods of the earth. <p class="indent1"> Then the nations of every shore <p class="indent2"> will bow in worship to Him, <p class="indent2"> each in its own place. <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on Cush and Assyria<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“You too, O Cushites,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <p class="indent2"> will be slain by My sword.” <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And He will stretch out His hand against the north <p class="indent2"> and destroy Assyria; <p class="indent1"> He will make Nineveh a desolation, <p class="indent2"> as dry as a desert. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Herds will lie down in her midst, <p class="indent2"> creatures of every kind.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <p class="indent1"> Both the desert owl and screech owl<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> <p class="indent2"> will roost atop her pillars. <p class="indent1"> Their calls will sound from the window, <p class="indent2"> but desolation will lie on the threshold, <p class="indent2"> for He will expose the beams of cedar. <p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This carefree city <p class="indent2"> that dwells securely, <p class="indent1"> that thinks to herself: <p class="indent2">“I am it, and there is none besides me,” <p class="indent1"> what a ruin she has become, <p class="indent2"> a resting place for beasts. <p class="indent1"> Everyone who passes by her <p class="indent2"> hisses and shakes his fist.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>is given birth</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>caves</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>camps</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>their fortunes</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> That is, people from the upper Nile region<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Hebrew <i>beasts of every nation</i><span class="thin"> </span> <br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> The precise identification of the animals rendered <i>desert owl</i><span class="thin"> </span> and <i>screech owl</i><span class="thin"> </span> is uncertain.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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