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Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; (2:1)

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 (2:2)

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 (2:3)

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up (2:4)

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 (2:5)

And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks (2:6)

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 (2:7)

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 (2:8)

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 (2:9)

This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of the Lord of hosts (2:10)

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 (2:11)

Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword (2:12)

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness (2:13)

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 (2:14)

This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, [and] wag his hand (2:15)

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