1 Shameless nation, come to your senses 2 before you are driven away like chaff blown by the wind, before the burning anger of the Lordcomes upon you, before the day when he shows his fury. 3 Turn to the Lord, all you humble people of the land, who obey his commands. Do what is right, and humble yourselves before the Lord. Perhaps you will escape punishment on the day when the Lordshows his anger.
The Doom of the Nations around Judah
4 Is 14.29-31;Jr 47.1-7;Ez 25.15-17;Jl 3.4-8;Am 1.6-8;Zec 9.5-7No one will be left in the city of Gaza. Ashkelonwill be deserted. The people of Ashdodwill be driven out in half a day,2.4: in half a day; or by a surprise attack at noontime.and the people of Ekronwill be driven from their city. 5 You Philistines are doomed, you people who live along the coast. The Lordhas passed sentence on you. He will destroy you, and not one of you will be left. 6 Your land by the sea will become open fields with shepherd’s huts and sheep pens. 7 The people of Judah who survive will occupy your land. They will pasture their flocks there and sleep in the houses of Ashkelon. The Lordtheir God will be with them and make them prosper again.
8 Is 15.1—16.14;25.10-12;Jr 48.1-47;Ez 25.8-11;Am 1.13-15;Jr 49.1-6;Ez 21.28-32;25.1-7;Am 1.13-15The LordAlmighty says, "I have heard the people of Moaband Ammoninsulting and taunting my people, and boasting that they would seize their land. 9 Gn 19.24As surely as I am the living Lord, the God of Israel, I swear that Moaband Ammonare going to be destroyed like Sodomand Gomorrah. They will become a place of salt pits and everlasting ruin, overgrown with weeds. Those of my people who survive will plunder them and take their land."
10 That is how the people of Moab and Ammon will be punished for their pride and arrogance and for insulting the people of the LordAlmighty. 11 The Lordwill terrify them. He will reduce the gods of the earth to nothing, and then every nation will worship him, each in its own land.
12 Is 18.1-7The Lordwill also put the people of Ethiopia2.12: Hebrew Cush: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).to death.
13 Is 10.5-34;14.24-27; Nh 1.1—3.19The Lordwill use his power to destroy Assyria. He will make the city of Nineveha deserted ruin, a waterless desert. 14 It will be a place where flocks, herds, and animals of every kind will lie down. Owls will live among its ruins and hoot from the windows. Crows2.14: Some ancient translations Crows; Hebrew Desolation.will caw on the doorsteps. The cedar wood of her buildings will be stripped away. 15 That is what will happen to the city that is so proud of its own power and thinks it is safe. Its people think that their city is the greatest in the world. What a desolate place it will become, a place where wild animals will rest! Everyone who passes by will shrink back in horror.
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Gaza
Hoje: Gaza
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Gaza was a city of the Philistines, where the people surrounded Samson and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate to kill him at dawn (Judges 16:2).
Ashdod was one of the cities of the five Philistine rulers; there Dagon was found fallen before the ark of the Lord, and the Lord’s hand was heavy on the people, afflicting them with tumors (1 Samuel 5:6).
Ekron was one of the five cities of the Philistine rulers, along with Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Gath; its god was Baal-zebub, whom the king of Samaria sent to consult (2 Kings 1:3).
Moab is a land ruled by kings, such as Eglon and Balak, where David asked the king to shelter his parents; fire and punishment are proclaimed against it (Amos 2:2).
Ammon is the land of the Ammonites, descendants of Ben-Ammi, with Rabbah as its capital. The Ammonites fought against Israel in the days of Jephthah, and Joab laid waste their land while David remained in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 20:1).
Moab is a land ruled by kings, such as Eglon and Balak, where David asked the king to shelter his parents; fire and punishment are proclaimed against it (Amos 2:2).
Ammon is the land of the Ammonites, descendants of Ben-Ammi, with Rabbah as its capital. The Ammonites fought against Israel in the days of Jephthah, and Joab laid waste their land while David remained in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 20:1).
Gomorrah was a city of the plain that God condemned to destruction along with Sodom, reducing both to ashes; the king of Gomorrah was Birsha (2 Peter 2:6).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Nineveh is the great city of Assyria where Jonah was sent to preach against the wickedness that had come up before God; there he proclaimed that the city would be overthrown in forty days (Jonah 3:4).