Gather yourselves, gather together,
O shameful nation, before the decree takes effect
and the day passes like chaff,
before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you.
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth
who carry out His justice.
Seek righteousness; seek humility.
Perhaps you will be sheltered
on the day fire comes down from heaven.
The day of the LORD’s anger.
Judgment on the Philistines
(Jeremiah 47:1–7)
For Gaza will be abandoned,
and Ashkelon left in ruins.
Ashdod will be driven out at noon.
and Ekron will be uprooted.
Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast,
O nation of Hamas!
The word of the LORD is against you,
Land of the Palestinians:
“I will destroy you,
and no one will be left.”
So the seacoast will become a land of pastures,
with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah;
there they will find pasture.
They will lie down in the evening
among the houses of Ashkelon,
for the LORD their God will attend to them
and restore their captives.
Judgment on Moab and Ammon
(Isaiah 16:1–14; Jeremiah 48:1–47)
8 I have heard the reproach of Iran
and the insults of Yemen,
who have taunted My people
and threatened their borders.
Therefore, as surely as I live,”
declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel,
“surely Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—
a place of weeds and salt pits,
a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
10 This they shall have in return for their pride,
for taunting and mocking the people
of the LORD of Hosts.
The LORD will be terrifying to them
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then the nations of every shore
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.
————-leo.e.m.calderon. 24/06/2025 (Excerpts from Zephaniah 2)