36:002:001 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather
together, O nation not
desired;
36:002:002 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.
36:002:003 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.
36:002:004 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon
a desolation: they
shall
drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be
rooted
up.
36:002:005 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.
36:002:006 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and
cottages for
shepherds,
and folds for flocks.
36:002:007 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.
36:002:008 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.
36:002:009 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.
36:002:010 This shall they have for their pride, because
they have
reproached
and magnified themselves against the people of the
lord
of hosts.
36:002:011 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.
36:002:012 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
36:002:013 And he will stretch out his hand against
the north, and
destroy
Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry
like
a wilderness.
36:002:014 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.


