2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
2:2 Before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of YHWH (יהוה) come upon you, before the day of YHWH (יהוה)'S anger come upon you.
2:3 Seek ye YHWH (יהוה), all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek tzedek, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of YHWH (יהוה)'S anger.
2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
2:5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Keretites (Cretans)! the word of YHWH (יהוה) [is] against you; O Kenaan, the land of the Pelishtim (Philistines), I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
2:6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
2:7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the Bayit Yehudah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for YHWH (יהוה) Eloheichem shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moav, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached My people, and magnified [themselves] against their border.
2:9 Therefore [as] I live, saith YHWH (יהוה) Tzava'ot, the Elohim of Yisrael, Surely Moav shall be as Sedom, and the children of Ammon as Amorah, [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.
2:10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of YHWH (יהוה) of Tzava'ot.
2:11 YHWH (יהוה) [will be] terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and [men] shall shachad (bow down to) him, every one from his place, [even] all the isles of the heathen.
2:12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.
2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness.
2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
2:15 This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, [and] wag his hand.