NITHYAM SONGSZephaniah 2
World English Bible (WEB) • 15 verses
1Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
2before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes on you, before the day of the LORD’s anger comes on you.
3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.
4For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
RelatedZechariah 9:5-7 · Amos 1:6-8 · Jeremiah 47:1-7 · Jeremiah 25:20 · Ezekiel 25:15-17 · Jeremiah 6:4
5Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The LORD’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant.
6The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for the LORD, their God, will visit them and restore them.
8I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.
RelatedEzekiel 25:3-11 · Psalms 83:4-7 · Jeremiah 48:27-29 · Jeremiah 49:1 · Amos 1:13 · Ezekiel 36:2
9Therefore, as I live, says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
RelatedIsaiah 15:1-9 · Isaiah 11:14 · Deuteronomy 29:23 · Isaiah 25:10 · Isaiah 49:18 · Jeremiah 48:1-49:6
10This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of Armies.
11The LORD will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
RelatedMicah 4:1-3 · Zechariah 13:2 · Zechariah 14:9-21 · Isaiah 2:2-4 · Hosea 2:17 · Isaiah 24:14-16
12You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
RelatedEzekiel 30:4-9 · Isaiah 43:3 · Isaiah 13:5 · Jeremiah 46:9-10 · Isaiah 18:1-7 · Isaiah 20:4-5
13He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
14Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all kinds of animals. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
RelatedIsaiah 13:19-22 · Isaiah 34:11-17 · Jeremiah 22:14 · Amos 9:1 · Revelation 18:2 · Isaiah 14:23
15This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake their fists.
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.