2:1 Bunch yourselves together like straw,
2:2 before God’s decree becomes reality
before the Lord’s raging anger
before the day of the Lord’s angry judgment overtakes you!
2:3 Seek the Lord’s favor,
Strive to do what is right!
Maybe you will be protected
2:4 Indeed,
and Ashkelon will become a heap of ruins.
Invaders will drive away the people of Ashdod by noon,
and Ekron will be overthrown.
2:5 Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete,
The Lord has decreed your downfall,
“I will destroy everyone who lives there!”
2:6 The seacoast
and as pens for their flocks.
2:7 Those who are left from the kingdom of Judah
By the sea
in the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening,
for the Lord their God will intervene for them
2:8 “I have heard Moab’s taunts
and the Ammonites’ insults.
They
and verbally harassed those living in Judah.
2:9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the Lord who commands armies, the God of Israel,
“be certain that Moab will become like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah.
They will be overrun by weeds,
filled with salt pits,
and permanently desolate.
Those of my people who are left
those who are left in Judah
2:10 This is how they will be repaid for their arrogance,
for they taunted and verbally harassed