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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 together, gather yourselves together, you shameful nation,
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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 and that day passes like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the LORD’s wrath 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 land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on 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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4Gaza will be abandoned and Ashkelon left in ruins. At midday Ashdod will be emptied and Ekron 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 you who live by the sea, you Kerethite people; the word of the LORD is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines. He says, “I will destroy you, and none will be left.”
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6The lands of the seafarerswill become pastureland,A country for shepherds and sheep.
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6The land by the sea will become pastures having wells for shepherds and pens 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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7That land will belong to the remnant of the people of Judah; there they will find pasture. In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The LORD their God will care for them; he will restore their fortunes.
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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 insults of Moab and the taunts of the Ammonites, who insulted my people and made threats against their land.
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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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9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a wasteland forever. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the survivors of my nation will inherit their land.”
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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 is what they will get in return for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the LORD Almighty.
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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 awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the earth. Distant nations will bow down to him, all of them in their own lands.
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12Also you Ethiopians,you too will die—I'll see to it."
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12“You Cushites, too, 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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13He will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate and dry as the desert.
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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 and herds will lie down there, creatures of every kind. The desert owl and the screech owl will roost on her columns. Their hooting will echo through the windows, rubble will fill the doorways, the beams of cedar will be exposed.
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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 city of revelry that lived in safety. She said to herself, “I am the one! And there is none besides me.” What a ruin she has become, a lair for wild beasts! All who pass by her scoff and shake their fists.