seek ye yahawah all ye meek of the earth

before the decree

bring foorth, the day passe as the chaffe, before the fierce anger of yahawah come vpon you, before the day of yahawah’s anger come vpon you. seek ye yahawah all ye meeke of the earth which haue wrought his iudgment, seeke righteousnesse, seeke meeknesse: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of yahawah’s anger

for gaza shall bee

forsaken, and ashkelon a desolation: they shall driue out ashdod at the noone day, and ekron shall be rooted vp. woe vnto the inhabitants of the sea coast: the nation of the cherethites, the word of yahawah is against you: o canaan, the land of the philistines, i will euen destroy thee, that there shal be no inhabitant.

and the sea coasts

shall bee dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and foldes for flockes. and the coast shall bee for the remnant of the house of iudah, they shall feede thereupon, in the houses of ashkelon shall they lie downe in the euening: for yahawah their power shall visite them, and turne away their captiuitie

i haue heard

the reproach of moab, and the reuilings of the children of ammon, whereby they haue reproched my people, and magnified themselues against their border. therefore, as i liue, saith yahawah of hostes the power of israel,

surely moab shalbe as sodom, and the children of ammon as gomorrah, euen the breeding of netles, and salt pits, and a perpetuall desolation, the residue of my people shall spoile them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them.

this shall they haue for their pride, because they haue reproched and magnified themselues against the people of yahawah of hostes. yahawah will be terrible vnto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and men shall worship him, euery one from his place, euen all the iles of the heathen.

ye ethiopians also, ye shalbe slaine by my sword. and he wil stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy assyria, and wil make nineueh a desolation, and dry like a wildernes. and flocks shall lie downe in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant, and the bitterne, shall lodge in the vpper lintels of it: their voice shal sing in the windowes, desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall vncouer the cedar worke. this is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelessely, that said in her heart, i am, and there is none beside me: how is shee become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie downe in! euery one that passeth by her, shall hisse and wagge his hand.

zephanaiah 2:2 +