Zep 2 | EngLXX | STEP | Be you⌃ gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation;

‏ Zephaniah 2

1 Be you⌃ gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation; 2 before you⌃ become as the flower that passes away, before the anger of the Lord come uponyou, before the day of the wrath of the Lord come upon you. 3 Seek you⌃ the Lord, all you⌃ meek of the earth; do judgment, and seek justice, and answeraccordingly; that you⌃ may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord. 4 For Gaza shall be utterly spoiled, and Ascalon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall becast forth at noon-day, and Accaron shall be rooted up. 5 Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbors of the Cretans! the word ofthe Lord is against you, O Chanaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out ofyour dwelling-place. 6 And Crete shall be a pasture of flocks, and a fold of sheep. 7 And the sea cost shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture uponthem in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Juda; for theLord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their captivity. 8 I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewiththey have reviled my people, and magnified themselves against my coasts. 9 Therefore,as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the childrenof Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascusshall be left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of mypeople shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them. 10 This is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproachedand magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty. 11 The Lord shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nationsof the earth; and they shall worship him every one from his place,even all the islands of the nations. 12 You⌃ Ethiopians also are the slain of my sword. 13 And he shall stretch forth his hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and makeNineve a dry wilderness,even as a desert. 14 And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midstthereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breachesthereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness wasas as cedar.