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Judgment on the Nations</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v43002004" class="ver">4</span>For Gaza shall be forsaken,</p> <p class="sl1">and Ashkelon shall be a waste,</p> <p class="sl">Ashdod they shall drive out at midday,</p> <p class="sl1">and Ekron<a id="rfn43002004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn43002004-1">*</a> shall be uprooted.<a id="ren43002004-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en43002004-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002005" class="ver">5</span>Ah! You who dwell by the seacoast,</p> <p class="sl1">the nation of Cherethites,<a id="rfn43002005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn43002005-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> is against you!</p> <p class="sl">O Canaan, land of the Philistines,</p> <p class="sl1">I will leave you to perish without an inhabitant!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002006" class="ver">6</span>You shall become fields for shepherds,</p> <p class="sl1">and folds for flocks.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002007" class="ver">7</span>The seacoast shall belong</p> <p class="sl1">to the remnant of the house of Judah;</p> <p class="sl1">by the sea they shall pasture.</p> <p class="sl">In the houses of Ashkelon</p> <p class="sl1">they shall lie down in the evening.</p> <p class="sl">For the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> their God will take care of them,</p> <p class="sl1">and bring about their restoration.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v43002008" class="ver">8</span>I have heard the taunts uttered by Moab,</p> <p class="sl1">and the insults of the Ammonites,<a id="rfn43002008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn43002008-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">When they taunted my people</p> <p class="sl1">and made boasts against their territory.<a id="ren43002008-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en43002008-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002009" class="ver">9</span>Therefore, as I live—</p> <p class="sl1">oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts—</p> <p class="sl1">the God of Israel,</p> <p class="sl">Moab shall become like Sodom,</p> <p class="sl1">the Ammonites like Gomorrah:</p> <p class="sl">A field of weeds,</p> <p class="sl1">a salt pit,</p> <p class="sl1">a waste forever.</p> <p class="sl">The remnant of my people shall plunder them,</p> <p class="sl1">the survivors of my nation dispossess them.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002010" class="ver">10</span>This will be the recompense for their pride,</p> <p class="sl1">because they taunted and boasted against</p> <p class="sl1">the people of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002011" class="ver">11</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> shall inspire them with terror</p> <p class="sl1">when he makes all the gods of earth waste away;</p> <p class="sl">Then the distant shores of the nations,</p> <p class="sl1">each from its own place,</p> <p class="sl1">shall bow down to him.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v43002012" class="ver">12</span>You too, O Cushites,<a id="rfn43002012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn43002012-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">shall be slain by the sword of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren43002012-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en43002012-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002013" class="ver">13</span>He will stretch out his hand against the north,</p> <p class="sl1">to destroy Assyria;</p> <p class="sl">He will make Nineveh a waste,</p> <p class="sl1">dry as the desert.<a id="ren43002013-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en43002013-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002014" class="ver">14</span>In her midst flocks shall lie down,</p> <p class="sl1">all the wild life of the hollows;</p> <p class="sl">The screech owl and the desert owl</p> <p class="sl1">shall roost in her columns;</p> <p class="sl">The owl shall hoot from the window,</p> <p class="sl1">the raven croak from the doorway.<a id="ren43002014-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en43002014-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v43002015" class="ver">15</span>Is this the exultant city<a id="rfn43002015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn43002015-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">that dwelt secure,</p> <p class="sl">That told itself,</p> <p class="sl1">“I and there is no one else”?</p> <p class="sl">How it has become a waste,</p> <p class="sl1">a lair for wild animals!</p> <p class="sl">Those who pass by it</p> <p class="sl1">hiss, and shake their fists!</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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