Doom to you who live on the seacoast,
to the nation of Cherethites!
And Canaan, land of the Philistines,
the word of YAHWEH is bad news for you.
I will destroy and annihilate you.
Your coastal lands will be reduced to pastureland,
to grazing grounds for shepherds
and folds for flocks.
Your land will be occupied
by the remnant of the people of Judah.
During the day, they will find pasture by the sea,
and at night, they will rest in the houses of Ashkelon.
YAHWEH their God will care for them,
and make them prosper again.”
“I, YAHWEH, have heard the crude taunts of Moab
and the vile insults of the Ammonites
as they scorned my people
and boasted that they would annex the land of Judah.
For as surely as I live, I, YAHWEH,
God of Israel, Commander of Angel Armies, decree:
Moab will become like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah.
The remnant of my people will plunder them;
the survivors of my nation will possess them.
Their lands will become barren forever,
a land of nothing but salt pits and piles of weeds.
This will be the price of their pride,
of having taunted and boasted
against the people of YAHWEH, who commands angel armies.
I, YAHWEH, will be terrifying to them,
for I will make all the gods of the earth vanish.
And the people of every nation
will bow down and worship me wherever they live.”
“You Ethiopians, too,
will be killed by my sword.”
“I will attack the northern land of Assyria
and destroy it all.
Nineveh will be left as desolate and dry as a desert.
It will be nothing more than a resting place for flocks and herds,
along with all creatures of every kind.
The vulture and owl
will nest at night in its ruins.
Owls will hoot from the windows,
and crows will caw in the doorways—
for all their once-fancy cedar woodwork
will be exposed to the elements.
This is the once-proud city,
living so happy and carefree
and thinking to herself,
‘I am so amazing, and I have no rival!’
Yet look at her now! What has she become?
Nothing but a pile of rubble and a lair for wild beasts.
Everyone who passes by
will hiss with scorn and shake their fists.”
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