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\c 2
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\q1
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\v 1 You people of Judah who ought to be ashamed,
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\q2 gather together to ask for God to merciful to you.
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\q1
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\v 2 Yahweh is very angry with you,
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\q2 so gather together now,
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\q1 before he punishes you—before he punishes you
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\q2 and sweeps you away as the wind blows away the chaff.
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\q1
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\v 3 All you people in Judah who are humble,
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\q2 worship Yahweh and obey what he has commanded.
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\q1 Try to do what is right
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\q2 and to be humble.
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\q1 If you do that, perhaps Yahweh will protect you
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\q2 on the day when he punishes people.
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\q1
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\v 4 When Yahweh punishes Philistia,
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\q2 the cities of Gaza and Ashkelon will lose all their inhabitants.
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\q1 Ashdod will be attacked and the people will be driven away at noon, when they are resting.
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\q2 The people of the city of Ekron will also be driven out.
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\q1
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\v 5 And terrible things will happen to you people of Philistia who live near the sea,
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\q2 because Yahweh has said he will punish you, also.
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\q1 He will get rid of all of you; not one of you will survive!
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\q1
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\v 6 The land of Philistia near the sea will become a pasture,
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\q2 a place for shepherds and their sheep pens.
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\q1
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\v 7 The people of Judah who survive will possess that land.
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\q2 At night they will sleep in the deserted houses in Ashkelon.
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\q1 Yahweh will take care of them;
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\q2 he will enable them to prosper again.
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\s5
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\p
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\v 8 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God of the Israelites, says this:
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\q1 "I have heard the people of Moab and Ammon
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\q1 insult my people and plan to conquer my people's country.
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\q1
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\v 9 So now, as surely as I live, I will destroy Moab and Ammon
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\q2 as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
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\q1 Their land will be a place where there are nettles and salt pits;
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\q2 it will be ruined forever, with none of their people living there!
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\q1 My people who survive will take away all their valuable possessions
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\q2 and also occupy their land."
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\q1
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\v 10 The people of Moab and Ammon will get what they deserve for being proud,
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\q2 because they made fun of the people who belong to Yahweh, commander of the angel armies.
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\q1
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\v 11 Yahweh will cause them to be terrified
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\q2 when he destroys all the gods of their countries.
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\q1 Then people from every nation will worship Yahweh,
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\q2 each in his own country.
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\q1
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\v 12 Yahweh says that he will also slaughter the people of Ethiopia.
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\q1
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\v 13 Yahweh will punish and destroy Assyria,
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\q2 that land northeast of us, and cause its capital Nineveh
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\q2 to become ruined and deserted, and as dry as the desert.
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\q1
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\v 14 Flocks of sheep and herds of cattle and many kinds of wild animals will lie down there.
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\q2 Owls and crows will sit on the columns of the destroyed buildings,
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\q1 and they will hoot through the windows.
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\q1 There will be rubble in the doorways,
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\q2 and the valuable cedar beams in the roofs of the buildings will become visible.
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\q1
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\v 15 The people of Nineveh used to be happy and proud,
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\q2 thinking that they were very safe.
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\q1 They were always saying,
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\q1 "Our city is the greatest city;
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\q2 there is no city as great as ours!"
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\q1 But now it will become a horrible place to see,
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\q2 a place where wild animals make their dens.
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\q1 And everyone who passes by there will hiss and scorn that city,
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\q2 and shake their fists to show that they detest that city very much.
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