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Sofonias 2 — Bíblia New Living Translation, 2015 | Gospelmais
15 versículos · New Living Translation, 2015
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1Gather together — yes, gather together,you 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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2Gather before judgment begins,before your time to repent is blown away like chaff.Act now, before the fierce fury of the LORD fallsand the terrible day of the LORD’s anger begins.
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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 who are humble,and follow his commands.Seek to do what is rightand to live humbly.Perhaps even yet the LORD will protect you —protect you from his anger on that day of destruction.
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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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4Gaza and Ashkelon will be abandoned,Ashdod and Ekron torn down.
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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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5And what sorrow awaits you Philistineswho live along the coast and in the land of Canaan,for this judgment is against you, too!The LORD will destroy youuntil not one of you 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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6The Philistine coast will become a wilderness pasture,a place of shepherd campsand enclosures for sheep and goats.
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6The lands of the seafarerswill become pastureland,A country for shepherds and sheep.
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7The remnant of the tribe of Judah will pasture there.They will rest at night in the abandoned houses in Ashkelon.For the LORD their God will visit his people in kindnessand restore their prosperity again.
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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 the Moabitesand the insults of the Ammonites,mocking my peopleand invading their borders.
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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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9Now, as surely as I live,”says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“Moab and Ammon will be destroyed —destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.Their land will become a place of stinging nettles,salt pits, and eternal desolation.The remnant of my people will plunder themand take 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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10They will receive the wages of their pride,for they have scoffed at the people of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
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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 terrify themas he destroys all the gods in the land.Then nations around the world will worship the LORD,each in their own land.
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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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12“You Ethiopians will also be slaughteredby my sword,” says the LORD.
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12Also you Ethiopians,you too will die—I'll see to it."
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13And the LORD will strike the lands of the north with his fist,destroying the land of Assyria.He will make its great capital, Nineveh, a desolate wasteland,parched like a 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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14The proud city will become a pasture for flocks and herds,and all sorts of wild animals will settle there.The desert owl and screech owl will roost on its ruined columns,their calls echoing through the gaping windows.Rubble will block all the doorways,and the cedar paneling will be exposed to the weather.
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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 boisterous city,once so secure.“I am the greatest!” it boasted.“No other city can compare with me!”But now, look how it has become an utter ruin,a haven for wild animals.Everyone passing by will laugh in derisionand shake a defiant 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.