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Judah and Jerusalem Judged Along With the Nations
Judah Summoned to Repent
2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather
together, O nation not desired;
2:2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as
the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon
you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have
wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it
may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.
Philistia
2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation:
they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall
be rooted up.
2:5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation
of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O
Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy
thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
2:6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for
shepherds, and folds for flocks.
2:7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of
Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon
shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God
shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
Moab and Ammon
2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of
the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my
people, and magnified themselves against their border.
2:9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children
of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and
saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my
people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall
possess them.
2:10 This shall they have for their pride, because they
have reproached and magnified themselves against the people
of the LORD of hosts.
2:11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will
famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him,
every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
Cush
2:12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Assyria
2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north,
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 nations: both the cormorant and the bittern
shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall
sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds;
for he shall uncover the cedar work.
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!
every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. |
Cults 
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