18NEITHER SILVER THEIR NOR GOLD THEIR NOT IT WILL BE ABLE TO DELIVER THEM ON [THE] DAY OF [THE] FURY OF YAHWEH AND IN [THE] FIRE OF JEALOUSY HIS IT WILL BE CONSUMED ALL THE EARTH FOR COMPLETE DESTRUCTION SURELY A TERRIBLE [THING] HE WILL MAKE WITH ALL [THE] INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH 18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.*NoteCloseOr of all the people living in the land
1GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER AND GATHER TOGETHER O NATION NOT ASHAMED A Call to Repentance (Joel 1:13–20; Amos 5:4–15; Luke 13:1–5) 1Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
2<IN> BEFORE BRINGS FORTH A DECREE LIKE CHAFF IT HAS PASSED AWAY A DAY <IN> BEFORE NOT IT WILL COME ON YOU [THE] BURNING OF [THE] ANGER OF YAHWEH <IN> BEFORE NOT IT WILL COME ON YOU [THE] DAY OF [THE] ANGER OF YAHWEH 2before the decree takes effect*NoteCloseHebrew is given birth and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.
3SEEK <OBJ.> YAHWEH O ALL [THE] HUMBLE [PEOPLE] OF THE LAND WHO JUDGMENT HIS THEY HAVE DONE SEEK RIGHTEOUSNESS SEEK HUMILITY PERHAPS YOU WILL BE HIDDEN ON [THE] DAY OF [THE] ANGER OF YAHWEH 3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
4FOR GAZA ABANDONED IT WILL BE AND ASHKELON [WILL BECOME] <INTO> A DESOLATION ASHDOD AT THE NOONTIDE<S> PEOPLE WILL DRIVE OUT IT AND EKRON IT WILL BE PLUCKED UP Judgment on the Philistines (Jeremiah 47:1–7) 4For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.
5WOE TO! [THE] INHABITANTS OF [THE] REGION OF THE SEA [THE] NATION OF [THE] KERETHITES [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH [IS] ON YOU O CANAAN [THE] LAND OF [THE] PHILISTINES AND I WILL DESTROY YOU FROM NOT INHABITANT 5Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
6AND IT WILL BE [THE] REGION OF THE SEA PASTURES OF MEADOWS OF SHEPHERDS AND FOLDS OF SHEEP 6So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells*NoteCloseOr caves or camps for shepherds and folds for sheep.
7AND IT WILL BELONG [THE] REGION TO [THE] REMNANT OF [THE] HOUSE OF JUDAH ON THEM THEY WILL GRAZE! IN [THE] HOUSES OF ASHKELON IN THE EVENING THEY WILL LIE DOWN! FOR HE WILL VISIT THEM YAHWEH GOD THEIR AND HE WILL TURN BACK CAPTIVITY THEIR 7The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.*NoteCloseOr their fortunes
8I HAVE HEARD [THE] REPROACH OF MOAB AND [THE] REVILING WORDS OF [THE] PEOPLE OF AMMON WHO THEY HAVE REPROACHED <OBJ.> PEOPLE MY AND THEY HAVE MAGNIFIED THEMSELVES ON TERRITORY THEIR Judgment on Moab and Ammon (Isaiah 16:1–14; Jeremiah 48:1–47) 8“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
9<TO> THEREFORE [BY] [THE] LIFE OF ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH OF HOSTS [THE] GOD OF ISRAEL THAT MOAB LIKE SODOM IT WILL BE AND [THE] PEOPLE OF AMMON LIKE GOMORRAH A PLACE POSSESSED OF NETTLE[S] AND A PIT OF SALT AND A WASTE UNTIL PERPETUITY [THE] REMNANT OF PEOPLE MY THEY WILL PLUNDER THEM AND [THE] REST OFK: NATION MY THEY WILL TAKE POSSESSION OF THEM 9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
10THIS [WILL BELONG] TO THEM IN PLACE OF PRIDE THEIR FOR THEY REPROACHED AND THEY MAGNIFIED THEMSELVES ON [THE] PEOPLE OF YAHWEH OF HOSTS 10This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
11[WILL BE] AWESOME YAHWEH ON THEM IF HE WILL MAKE LEAN <OBJ.> ALL [THE] GODS OF THE EARTH SO THEY MAY BOW DOWN TO HIM EVERYONE FROM OWN PLACE HIS ALL [THE] ISLANDS OF THE NATIONS 11The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
12ALSO YOU O CUSHITES [ARE THOSE] SLAIN OF SWORD MY THEY Judgment on Cush and Assyria 12“You too, O Cushites,*NoteCloseThat is, people from the upper Nile region will be slain by My sword
13AND HE MAY STRETCH OUT HAND HIS ON [THE] NORTH SO HE MAY DESTROY <OBJ.> ASSYRIA AND HE MAY MAKE <OBJ.> NINEVEH <INTO> A WASTE A DRY REGION LIKE THE WILDERNESS 13And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
14AND THEY WILL LIE DOWN IN [THE] MIDST OF IT HERDS EVERY ANIMAL OF A NATION BOTH DESERT OWL AS WELL AS HEDGEHOG ON CAPITALS ITS THEY WILL SPEND [THE] NIGHT A SOUND IT WILL SING IN THE WINDOW DESOLATION [WILL BE] ON THE THRESHOLD FOR CEDAR-WORK HE WILL LAY BARE 14Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind.*NoteCloseHebrew beasts of every nation Both the desert owl and screech owl*NoteCloseThe precise identification of the animals rendered desert owl and screech owl is uncertain. will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
15THIS [IS] THE CITY <THE> JUBILANT WHICH DWELLS TO SECURITY WHICH SAYS IN HEART ITS I AND ONLY I [AM] YET HOW! IT HAS BECOME <INTO> A WASTE A RESTING PLACE FOR <THE> ANIMAL[S] EVERY [ONE WHO] PASSES BY AT IT HE WILL HISS HE WILL SHAKE HAND HIS 15This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.