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Sofonias 2 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
15 versículos · The Message, 2002
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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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1Gather yourselves together, yes, gather, O nation without shame,
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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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2Before the decree takes effect-- The day passes like the chaff-- Before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, Before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.
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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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3Seek the LORD, All you humble of the earth Who have carried out His ordinances; Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of the LORD'S anger.
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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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4For Gaza will be abandoned And Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod will be driven out at noon And Ekron will be uprooted.
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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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5Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, The nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; And I will destroy you So that there will be no inhabitant.
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6The lands of the seafarerswill become pastureland,A country for shepherds and sheep.
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6So the seacoast will be pastures, caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.
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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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7And the coast will be For the remnant of the house of Judah, They will pasture on it. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening; For the LORD their God will care for them And restore their fortune.
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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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8'I have heard the taunting of Moab And the revilings of the sons of Ammon, With which they have taunted My people And become arrogant against their territory.
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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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9'Therefore, as I live,' declares the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, 'Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah-- A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.'
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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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10This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the LORD of hosts.
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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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11The LORD will be terrifying to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his place.
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12Also you Ethiopians,you too will die—I'll see to it."
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12'You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword.'
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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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13And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness.
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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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14Flocks will lie down in her midst, All beasts which range in herds; Both the pelican and the hedgehog Will lodge in the tops of her pillars; Birds will sing in the window, Desolation on the threshold; For He has laid bare the cedar work.
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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.
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15This is the exultant city Which dwells securely, Who says in her heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' How she has become a desolation, A resting place for beasts! Everyone who passes by her will hiss wave his hand .