1 Susirinkite, taip, susirinkite, nemėgstama tauta,

2 kol dar nepriimtas sprendimas­ diena praeis kaip pelai,­kol neužgriuvo Viešpaties baisioji rūstybė, kol neatėjo Viešpaties rūstybės diena!

3 Visi krašto romieji, kurie vykdote Jo įsakymus, ieškokite Viešpaties, ieškokite teisumo, ieškokite nuolankumo! Gal išvengsite Viešpaties rūstybės?

4 Gaza taps negyvenama vieta, o Aškelonas­dykuma. Ašdodo gyventojai bus vidudienį išvaryti, Ekronas išrautas su šaknimis.

5 Vargas jums, pajūrio gyventojai, keretų tauta! Viešpaties žodis prieš jus: "Kanaane, filistinų šalie, Aš sunaikinsiu tave, liksi be gyventojų".

6 Pajūrio kraštas taps avių ganyklomis ir gardais.

7 Pajūris atiteks Judo namų likučiui: prie jūros jie ganys bandas, o vakare ilsėsis Aškelone. Viešpats, jų Dievas, aplankys juos ir parves jų ištremtuosius.

8 "Aš girdėjau moabitų plūdimą ir amonitų piktžodžiavimą, kai jie plūdo mano tautą ir didžiavosi prieš jos kraštą.

9 Todėl, kaip Aš gyvas,­sako kareivijų Viešpats, Izraelio Dievas,­Moabas taps Sodoma ir Amonas­Gomora, piktžolių laukais bei druskos duobėmis ir tyrais per amžius. Mano tautos likutis juos apiplėš ir pasisavins jų kraštą".

10 Jie bus nubausti už išdidumą ir kareivijų Viešpaties tautos plūdimą.

11 Baisus bus jiems Viešpats. Jis sunaikins visus jų krašto dievus, tada garbins Jį visos pagonių salos.

12 Jūs, etiopai, taip pat būsite žudomi mano kardu.

13 Jis išties savo ranką į šiaurę ir sunaikins Asiriją, pavers Ninevę dykyne:

14 ji bus ganykla bandoms ir poilsio vieta visiems žvėrims. Vanagai ir apuokai nakvos ant kolonų, jų balsai girdėsis languose. Slenksčiai bus nuniokoti, kedro lentos bus nuplėštos.

15 Džiūgavęs miestas, kuris taip saugiai gyveno, galvodamas: "Aš ir niekas kitas!" Kuo jis pavirto? Dykyne, gyvulių ganykla. Kiekvienas praeidamas švilps ir mos ranka.

1 Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;

2 Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.

3 Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

4 For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.

5 Sorrow to the people living by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will send destruction on you till there is no one living in you.

6 And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.

7 The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.

8 My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.

9 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

10 This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

11 The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

12 And you Ethiopians will be put to death by my sword.

13 And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

14 And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.

15 This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.