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Sofonias 2 — Bíblia English Standard Version, 2016 | Gospelmais
15 versículos · English Standard Version, 2016
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1Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation,
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1So get yourselves together. Shape up!You're a nation without a clue about what it wants.
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2before the decree takes effect — before the day passes away like chaff — before there comes upon you the burning anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the LORD.
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2Do it before you're blown awaylike leaves in a windstorm,Before God's Judgment-angersweeps down on you,Before God's Judgment Day wrathdescends with full force.
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3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
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3Seek God, all you quietly disciplined peoplewho live by God's justice.Seek God's right ways. Seek a quiet and disciplined life.Perhaps you'll be hidden on the Day of God's anger.
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4For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
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4Gaza is scheduled for demolition,Ashdod will be cleaned out by high noon,Ekron pulled out by the roots.
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5Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
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5Doom to the seaside people,the seafaring people from Crete!The Word of God is bad news for youwho settled Canaan, the Philistine country:"You're slated for destruction—no survivors!"
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6And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.
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6The lands of the seafarerswill become pastureland,A country for shepherds and sheep.
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7The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.
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7What's left of the family of Judah will get it.Day after day they'll pasture by the sea,and go home in the evening to Ashkelon to sleep.Their very own God will look out for them.He'll make things as good as before.
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8“I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
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8"I've heard the crude taunts of Moab,the mockeries flung by Ammon,The cruel talk they've used to put down my people,their self-important strutting along Israel's borders.
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9Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
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9Therefore, as sure as I am the living God," saysGod-of-the-Angel-Armies,Israel's personal God,"Moab will become a ruin like Sodom,Ammon a ghost town like Gomorrah,One a field of rocks, the other a sterile salt flat,a moonscape forever.What's left of my people will finish them off,will pick them clean and take over.
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10This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts.
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10This is what they get for their bloated pride,their taunts and mockeries of the peopleof God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
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11The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
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11God will be seen as truly terrible—a Holy Terror.All earth-made gods will shrivel up and blow away;And everyone, wherever they are, far or near,will fall to the ground and worship him.
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12You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.
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12Also you Ethiopians,you too will die—I'll see to it."
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13And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
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13Then God will reach into the northand destroy Assyria.He will waste Nineveh,leave her dry and treeless as a desert.
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14Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
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14The ghost town of a city,the haunt of wild animals,Nineveh will be home to raccoons and coyotes—they'll bed down in its ruins.Owls will hoot in the windows, ravens will croak in the doorways—all that fancy woodwork now a perch for birds.
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15This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
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15Can this be the famous Fun Citythat had it made,That boasted, "I'm the Number-One City!I'm King of the Mountain!"So why is the place deserted,a lair for wild animals?Passersby hardly give it a look;they dismiss it with a gesture.