1. Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together,O undesirable nation,
2. Before the decree is issued,Or the day passes like chaff,Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you,Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!
3. Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,Who have upheld His justice.Seek righteousness, seek humility.It may be that you will be hiddenIn the day of the Lord’s anger.
4. For Gaza shall be forsaken,And Ashkelon desolate;They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday,And Ekron shall be uprooted.
5. Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,The nation of the Cherethites!The word of the Lord is against you,O Canaan, land of the Philistines:“I will destroy you;So there shall be no inhabitant.”
6. The seacoast shall be pastures,With shelters for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7. The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;They shall feed their flocks there;In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening.For the Lord their God will intervene for them,And return their captives.
8. “I have heard the reproach of Moab,And the insults of the people of Ammon,With which they have reproached My people,And made arrogant threats against their borders.
9. Therefore, as I live,”Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,“Surely Moab shall be like Sodom,And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—Overrun with weeds and saltpits,And a perpetual desolation.The residue of My people shall plunder them,And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”