Sofonias 2

1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame, 2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you. 3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger. 4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up. 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant. 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks. 7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God,*2:7 The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "אֱלֹהִ֑ים" (Elohim). will visit them and restore them. 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border. 9 Therefore, as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them. 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies. 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

12 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness. 14 Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all kinds of animals. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams. 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake their fists.

He Īnoi mō te Rīpenetā

1 Huihui, āe rā, huihui i a koutou,

e iwi kāhore nei he whakamā;

2 i te mea kīanō te ture i whai hua,

ā, kīanō i pahemo te rā ānō he pāpapa,

i te mea kīanō i tae iho ki a koutou

te mura o tō Ihowā riri,

i te mea kīanō i tae iho ki a koutou

te rā o tō Ihowā riri.

3 Rapua a Ihowā, e te hunga māhaki katoa o te whenua,

e te hunga e mahi ana i tāna i whakarite ai;

rapua te tika, rapua te tikanga māhaki;

me kāhore koutou e piri i te rā o tō Ihowā riri.

4 Nō te mea tērā a Kaha ka mahue,

ka ururuatia a Ahakerono;

ka peia atu a Aharoro i te poutūmārōtanga,

ka hūtia atu hoki a Ekerono.

5 Auē te mate mō ngā tāngata i ngā tahatika o te moana,

mō te iwi o ngā Kereti!

Kua kōrero a Ihowā i te hē mōu,

e Kanaana, e te whenua o ngā Pirihitini;

ka ngaro koe i ahau, kāhore he tangata hei noho.

6 Ā, ka waiho te tahatika o te moana hei haerenga hipi,

me ngā whare mō ngā hēpara,

me ngā taiepa mō ngā hipi.

7 Ka waiho anō te tahatika

mō ngā toenga o te whare o Hūrā,

ka whāngaia e rātou ā rātou hipi ki reira.

Ka takoto i te ahiahi

i roto i ngā whare o Ahakerono;

nō te mea ka tirotirohia rātou e Ihowā, e tō rātou Atua,

ā, ka whakahokia mai e ia i te whakarau.

8 "Kua rongo ahau i tā Moapa tāwai,

i ngā taunu a ngā tama a Āmona,

i tā rātou tāwai ki tāku iwi,

i tā rātou whakatete mō tō rātou rohe kia nui.

9 Mō reira e ora ana ahau,"

e ai tā Ihowā o ngā mano, tā te Atua o Īharaira,

"he pono ka rite a Moapa ki Horoma,

ngā tama a Āmona ki Komora,

hei tupuranga ongaonga, hei rua tote,

hei ururua, ā ake ake.

Mā ngā toenga o tāku iwi rātou e pāhua,

hei kāinga tupu rātou mō ngā mōrehu o āku tāngata."

10 Hei utu tēnei ki a rātou mō tō rātou whakapehapeha,

mō tā rātou tāwai, mō tā rātou whakakake

ki te iwi o Ihowā o ngā mano.

11 Nā, ka wehingia a Ihowā e rātou,

nō te mea ka hīroki i a ia ngā atua katoa o te whenua;

ā, ka koropiko ngā tāngata katoa ki a ia

i tōna wāhi, i tōna wāhi,

arā ngā motu katoa o ngā tauiwi.

12 "Ko koutou anō, e ngā Etiopiana,

ka werohia koutou ki tāku hoari."

13 Ka totoro anō tōna ringa ki te raki,

ā, ka ngaro a Ahiria i a ia;

ā, ka meinga a Ninewe hei ururua,

ka maroke, ka pērā i te koraha.

14 Ā, ka tāpapa ngā kāhui ki waenganui ōna,

ngā kīrehe katoa o ngā tauiwi.

Ka noho te kawau rāua ko te matuku

ki ōna puku whakapaipai;

ka puaki tō rāua reo i ngā matapihi;

ka ururuatia ngā kūwaha;

nō te mea ka tū tahanga ngā mea hīta i a ia.

15 Ko te pā whakamanamana tēnei

i noho wehikore nei,

i mea nei i roto i tōna ngākau,

"Ko ahau tēnei, kāhore atu hoki, ko ahau anake."

Anō tōna ururuatanga,

he tāpapatanga kīrehe!

Ko te hunga katoa e tika ana

nā reira ka hī atu, ka tawhi i tōna ringa.