Seek righteousness; seek meekness—Judgment shall come upon the Philistines, Moab, the children of Ammon, the Ethiopians, and the Assyrians.

1 - Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

2 - Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the L ORD come upon you, before the day of the L ORD ’s anger come upon you.

3 - Seek ye the L ORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the L ORD ’s anger.

4 - ¶ For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

5 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the L ORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

6 - And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

7 - And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the L ORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

8 - ¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

9 - Therefore as I live, saith the L ORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

10 - This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the L ORD of hosts.

11 - The L ORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

12 - ¶ Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

13 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria ; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

14 - And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

15 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.