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Bible Doctrine Study Guides Zephaniah Chapter 02 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired. 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah/God come upon you, before the day of the Jehovah/God's anger come upon you. 3 Seek you all Jehovah/God, all you meek of the earth, who have wrought His judgment. Seek righteousness. Seek humility.   {comparing yourself to God and truly understanding how you   compare - He is everything, and all we have is from His Grace} It may be you shall be hid in the day of the Jehovah/God's anger. 4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites the word/'doctrinal communication' {dabar} of Jehovah/God is against you. O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy you, that there shall be no inhabitant. 6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. 7 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 Jehovah/God their 'Elohiym/Godhead shall visit them, and turn away their captivity. 8 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. 9 Therefore as I live, said Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts, the 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall spoil them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them. 10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts. 11 Jehovah/God will be terrible unto them. For He will famish all the 'elohiym/gods of the earth. And men shall worship Him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. 12 You all Ethiopians also, you all shall be slain by My sword. 13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north, and destroy Assyria. And will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. 14 And flocks shall lie down in the middle of her, all the animals/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. 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart/'right lobe', I am . . . and there is none beside me. How is she become a desolation, a place for animals/beasts to lie down in every one who passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.   {idiom for signs of derision}