1Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation that has no shame; 2before the decree brings forth, before the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yehovah comes upon you, before the day of Yehovah’s anger comes upon you. 3Seek Yehovah, all you meek of the earth, who have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you will be hidden in the day of Yehovah’s anger. 4For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up. 5Woe to the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yehovah is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy you, that there shall be no inhabitant. 6And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks. 7And 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 in the evening; for Yehovah their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity. 8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9Therefore as I live, says Yehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them. 10This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yehovah of hosts. 11Yehovah will be terrible to them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations. 12You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by my sword. 13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness. 14And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he has laid bare the cedar-work. 15This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! everyone who passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.