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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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1Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
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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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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 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 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 and Ashkelon will be abandoned,Ashdod and Ekron torn down.
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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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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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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 Philistine coast will become a wilderness pasture,a place of shepherd campsand enclosures for sheep and goats.
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6The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
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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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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 have heard the taunts of the Moabitesand the insults of the Ammonites,mocking my peopleand invading their 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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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 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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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 they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of 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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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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12“You Ethiopians will also be slaughteredby my sword,” says the LORD.
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12You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
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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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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 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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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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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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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.