Zephaniah 2

2Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation ^||not ^adesired;

^2bBefore the decree bring forth, before the day pass ^cas the chaff,

^dBefore the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you,

Before the day of the Lord’s anger come upon you.

^3eSeek ye the Lord, ^fall ye meek of the earth,

Which have wrought his judgment;

Seek righteousness, seek meekness:

It ^gmay be ^hye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.

⁴For ^ijkGaza shall be ^lforsaken, and ^ijmAshkelon a desolation:

They shall drive out ^jnAshdod ^oat the noon day, and ^jpEkron ^qshall be rooted up.

⁵Woe unto the inhabitants of ^rthe sea ^vcoast, the nation of the ^sCherethites!

The word of the Lord is against you;

^tO Canaan, the land of the Philistines,

I will even destroy thee, ^uthat there shall be no inhabitant.

⁶And the sea ^vcoast ^wshall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and ^xfolds for flocks.

⁷And ^vthe coast shall be for ^xxthe remnant of the house of Judah;

^yThey shall feed thereupon:

^yIn the houses of ^mAshkelon shall they ^zlie down in the evening:

^||For the Lord their God shall ^avisit them, and ^bturn away their captivity.

^8cI have heard ^dthe reproach of Moab,

And ^dthe revilings of ^ethe children of Ammon,

Whereby they have reproached my people,

And ^fmagnified themselves ^gagainst their border.

⁹Therefore ^has I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,

Surely ^cMoab shall be ⁱas Sodom, and ^ethe children of Ammon ⁱas Gomorrah,

Even the breeding of ^knettles, and ⁱsaltpits, and ^la perpetual desolation:

^mThe residue of my people shall spoil them,

And the remnant of ⁿmy people shall possess them.

¹⁰This shall they have ^ofor their pride,

Because they have reproached and ^fmagnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.

¹¹The Lord will be terrible unto them:

For ^phe will ^†famish all the gods of the earth;

And ^qmen shall worship him, ^revery one from his place,

Even all ^sthe isles of the heathen.

^12tYe Ethiopians also, ye shall be ^uslain by ^vmy sword.

¹³And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and ^wdestroy Assyria;

And will make ^xNineveh ^ya desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

¹⁴And flocks shall ^zalie down in the midst of her, ^aall the beasts of the nations:

Both the ^||bcormorant and ^bcthe bittern shall lodge in the ^||upper lintels of it;

Their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in ^dthe thresholds:

^||For he shall ^dduncover ^ethe cedar work.

¹⁵This is ^fthe rejoicing city ^gthat dwelt carelessly,

^ghThat said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me:

How is she become a desolation, ⁱa place for beasts to lie down in!

^jEvery one that passeth by her ^jkshall hiss, and ^lwag his hand.