Gather yourselves together, and assemble together, O unfeeling nation;

before the decree is brought forth, before the day when you pass away like chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger come upon you.

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who have performed his judgment; seek righteousness, seek humility: it may be you shall be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.

For ῾Azza shall be forsaken, and Ashqelon shall be a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and ῾Eqron shall be rooted up.

Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Keretim! the word of the Lord is against you; O Kena῾an, the land of the Pelishtim, I will destroy thee, so that there shall be no inhabitant.

And the sea coast shall be pastures, and meadows for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

And it shall be an allotment for the remnant of the house of Yehuda; they shall feed there; in the houses of Ashqelon they shall lie down in the evening: for the Lord their God shall remember them, and restore their captivity.

I have heard the taunt of Mo᾽av, and the revilings of the children of ῾Ammon, whereby they have taunted my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

Therefore as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el, Surely Mo᾽av shall be like Sedom, and the children of ῾Ammon like ῾Amora, the breeding place of nettles, and saltpits, and a desolation for ever: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.

The Lord will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, everyone from his place, all the islands of the nations.

You Kushites also, you shall be slain by my sword.

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Ashshur; and will make Nineve a desolation, dry like the wilderness.

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the little owl and the great owl shall lodge in its capitals; their voice shall sing in the window; desolation shall be in the threshold: for he has uncovered the cedar work.

This is the joyful city that dwelt securely, 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 passes by her shall hiss, and gesture with his hand.