1. Gather together, yes, gather together,O shameless nation,
2. before the decree takes effect,before the day passes like chaff,before the fierce anger of the Lord comes upon you,before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you.
3. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,who carry out His judgment.Seek righteousness, seek humility.Perhaps you will be hiddenon the day of the Lord’s anger.
4. For Gaza will be forsaken,and Ashkelon a desolation;Ashdod will be driven out at noon,and Ekron will be uprooted.
5. Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,the nation of Kerethites!The word of the Lord is against you,O Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy you,so that there will be no inhabitant.
6. The seacoast will be pastures,with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7. The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah,on which they will feed.In the houses of Ashkelonthey will lie down at evening.For the Lord their God will visit themand restore their fortunes.
8. I have heard these taunts of Moab,and the revilings of the Ammonites,by which they have reproached My people,and made boasts against their territory.
9. Therefore, as I live,says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel,surely Moab will be like Sodom,and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a land of weeds and salt pits,and a perpetual desolation.The remnant of My people will plunder them,and the survivors of My nation will possess them.
10. This will they have for their pride,because they taunted and boasted againstthe people of the Lord of Hosts.
11. The Lord will be dreadful to them,for He will weaken all the gods of the earth;men will worship Him, every one from his place,all the lands of the nations.
12. You also, O Ethiopians,will be slain by My sword.