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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 together, you nation that has no 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 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.
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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 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.
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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 forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
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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 sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, 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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6The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages 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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7The 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, will visit them, and restore them.
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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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8I 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.
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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 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.
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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 for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
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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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11Yahweh 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.
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12Also you Ethiopians,you too will die—I'll see to it."
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12You Cushites also, you will be killed 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, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as 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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14Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. 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.
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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 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.