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Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD"s anger.

Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD"s anger come upon you.

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men"s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD"s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men"s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.