Gather yourselves together and be bound together, the nation not disciplined.
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Rahlfs Septuagint
Zephaniah 2
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τοῦ γενέσθαι ὑμᾶς ὡς ἄνθος παραπορευόμενον πρὸ τοῦ ἐπελθεῖν ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς ὀργὴν κυρίου πρὸ τοῦ ἐπελθεῖν ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς ἡμέραν θυμοῦ κυρίου
before you become as a passing flower, before the anger of the Lord comes upon you, before the day of the wrath of the Lord comes upon you
τὸν κύριον πάντες ταπεινοὶ γῆς κρίμα ἐργάζεσθε καὶ δικαιοσύνην ζητήσατε καὶ ἀποκρίνεσθε αὐτά ὅπως σκεπασθῆτε ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ὀργῆς κυρίου
Seek the Lord, all humble ones of the earth; work judgment and righteousness; seek and answer them, so that you may be covered in the day of the Lord’s wrath.
Γάζα διηρπασμένη ἔσται καὶ Ἀσκαλὼν ἔσται εἰς ἀφανισμόν καὶ Ἄζωτος μεσημβρίας ἐκριφήσεται καὶ Ακκαρων ἐκριζωθήσεται
For Gaza shall be plundered, and Ashkelon shall be for destruction, and Ashdod shall be cast out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὸ σχοίνισμα τῆς θαλάσσης πάροικοι Κρητῶν λόγος κυρίου ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς Χανααν γῆ ἀλλοφύλων καὶ ἀπολῶ ὑμᾶς ἐκ κατοικίας
Woe to the inhabitants of the boundary of the sea, sojourners of the Cretans; the word of the Lord is against you, Canaan, land of foreigners, and I will destroy you from your dwelling place
And Crete shall be a pasture for flocks and a fold for sheep
ἔσται τὸ σχοίνισμα τῆς θαλάσσης τοῖς καταλοίποις οἴκου Ιουδα ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς νεμήσονται ἐν τοῖς οἴκοις Ἀσκαλῶνος δείλης καταλύσουσιν ἀπὸ προσώπου υἱῶν Ιουδα ὅτι ἐπέσκεπται αὐτοὺς κύριος ὁ θεὸς αὐτῶν καὶ ἀπέστρεψε τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν αὐτῶν
And the coastland of the sea shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; on them they shall pasture, in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening, before the sons of Judah, because the Lord their God has visited them and has turned back their captivity.
ὀνειδισμοὺς Μωαβ καὶ κονδυλισμοὺς υἱῶν Αμμων ἐν οἷς ὠνείδιζον τὸν λαόν μου καὶ ἐμεγαλύνοντο ἐπὶ τὰ ὅριά μου
I have heard the reproaches of Moab and the tauntings of the sons of Ammon, by which they reproached my people and magnified themselves against my borders.
τοῦτο ζῶ ἐγώ λέγει κύριος τῶν δυνάμεων ὁ θεὸς Ισραηλ διότι Μωαβ ὡς Σοδομα ἔσται καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Αμμων ὡς Γομορρα καὶ Δαμασκὸς ἐκλελειμμένη ὡς θιμωνιὰ ἅλωνος καὶ ἠφανισμένη εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ οἱ κατάλοιποι λαοῦ μου διαρπῶνται αὐτούς καὶ οἱ κατάλοιποι ἔθνους μου κληρονομήσουσιν αὐτούς
Therefore I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, because Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, and Damascus, abandoned like a heap of a threshing floor, and destroyed forever; and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them
This shall be to them instead of their insolence, because they reproached and magnified themselves against the Lord the Almighty
κύριος ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐξολεθρεύσει πάντας τοὺς θεοὺς τῶν ἐθνῶν τῆς γῆς καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν αὐτῷ ἕκαστος ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ πᾶσαι αἱ νῆσοι τῶν ἐθνῶν
The Lord will appear against them and will destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth, and each from his place, all the islands of the nations will worship him.
And you also, Ethiopians, are the wounded of my sword.
ἐκτενεῖ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ βορρᾶν καὶ ἀπολεῖ τὸν Ἀσσύριον καὶ θήσει τὴν Νινευη εἰς ἀφανισμὸν ἄνυδρον ὡς ἔρημον
And he will stretch out his hand against the north and will destroy the Assyrian, and he will make Nineveh into a desolation, dry as a desert.
νεμήσονται ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς ποίμνια καὶ πάντα τὰ θηρία τῆς γῆς καὶ χαμαιλέοντες καὶ ἐχῖνοι ἐν τοῖς φατνώμασιν αὐτῆς κοιτασθήσονται καὶ θηρία φωνήσει ἐν τοῖς διορύγμασιν αὐτῆς κόρακες ἐν τοῖς πυλῶσιν αὐτῆς διότι κέδρος τὸ ἀνάστημα αὐτῆς
And flocks and all the beasts of the earth and chameleons and hedgehogs shall graze in the midst of her, and beasts shall lie down in her paneling, and beasts shall cry out in her openings, ravens in her gates, because her stature is cedar.
ἡ πόλις ἡ φαυλίστρια ἡ κατοικοῦσα ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι ἡ λέγουσα ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτῆς ἐγώ εἰμι καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν μετ᾿ ἐμὲ ἔτι πῶς ἐγενήθη εἰς ἀφανισμόν νομὴ θηρίων πᾶς ὁ διαπορευόμενος δι᾿ αὐτῆς συριεῖ καὶ κινήσει τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ
This is the city, the scoffing one, that dwells in hope, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not after me still. How has she become for destruction, a pasture of beasts! Everyone who passes through her will whistle and shake his hands.