Zephaniah 2

1Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,Cross-references: 2Chr 20:4 · Neh 8:1 · Neh 9:1 · Esth 4:16 · Isa 1:4 · Isa 1:10 · +8 more

2before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.Cross-references: 2Ki 22:16 · 2Ki 23:26 · 2Chr 36:16 · Job 21:18 · Ps 1:4 · Ps 2:12 · +15 more

3Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.Cross-references: Gen 7:15 · Ex 12:27 · 2Sam 12:22 · 2Chr 34:27 · Ps 22:26 · Ps 25:8 · +35 more

4For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.Cross-references: Ps 91:6 · Jer 6:4 · Jer 15:8 · Jer 25:20 · Jer 47:1 · Ezek 25:15 · +2 more

5Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant.Cross-references: Josh 13:3 · Judg 3:3 · Isa 14:30 · Jer 47:7 · Ezek 25:16 · Amos 3:1 · +4 more

6The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.Cross-references: Isa 5:17 · Isa 17:2 · Ezek 25:5 · Zeph 2:14

7The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them and restore them.Cross-references: Gen 50:24 · Ex 4:31 · Ps 85:1 · Ps 126:1 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 14:1 · +26 more

8I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.Cross-references: Ps 83:4 · Jer 48:27 · Jer 49:1 · Ezek 25:3 · Ezek 36:2 · Amos 1:13

9Therefore, as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Num 14:21 · Deut 29:23 · Isa 11:14 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 15:1 · +15 more

10This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Ex 9:17 · Ex 10:3 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 16:6 · Isa 37:22 · Jer 48:29 · +6 more

11Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.Cross-references: Gen 10:5 · Deut 32:38 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:8 · Ps 72:17 · +24 more

12You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.Cross-references: Ps 17:13 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 13:5 · Isa 18:1 · Isa 20:4 · Isa 43:3 · +4 more

13He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.Cross-references: Ps 83:8 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 10:16 · Isa 11:11 · Ezek 31:3 · Mic 5:6 · +6 more

14Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all kinds of animals. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.Cross-references: Isa 13:19 · Isa 14:23 · Isa 34:11 · Jer 22:14 · Amos 9:1 · Zeph 2:6 · +1 more

15This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake their fists.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:7 · Job 27:23 · Ps 52:6 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 14:4 · Isa 22:2 · +13 more