The Lord Will Judge Judah and Jerusalem Along With the Nations
God Calls Judah to Turn Away From Their Sins
1Gather together,
you shameful nation of Judah!
Gather yourselves together!
2Come together before the Lord’s judgment arrives.
The day of the Lord’s judgment will sweep in
like straw blown by the wind.
Soon the Lord’s great anger will come against you.
The day of his wrath will come against you.
3So look to him, all you people in the land
who worship him faithfully.
You always do what he commands you to do.
Continue to do what is right.
Don’t be proud.
Then perhaps the Lord will keep you safe
on the day he pours out his anger on the world.
A Message About Philistia
4Gaza will be deserted.
Ashkelon will be destroyed.
Ashdod will be emptied out at noon.
Ekron will be pulled up by its roots.
5How terrible it will be for you Kerethites
who live by the Mediterranean Sea!
Philistia, the Lord has spoken against you.
What happened to Canaan will happen to you.
The Lord says, “I will destroy you.
No one will be left.”
6The land by the sea will become grasslands.
It will have wells for shepherds and pens for flocks.
7That land will belong to those who are still left alive
among the people of Judah.
They will find grasslands there.
They will take over
the houses in Ashkelon and live in them.
The Lord their God will take care of them.
He will bless them with great success again.
A Message About Moab and Ammon
8The Lord says,
“I have heard Moab make fun of my people.
The Ammonites also laughed at them.
They told them that bad things
would happen to their land.
9So Moab will become like Sodom,”
announces the Lord who rules over all.
“Ammon will be like Gomorrah.
Weeds and salt pits will cover those countries.
They will be dry and empty deserts forever.
Those who are still left alive among my people
will take all their valuable things.
So they will receive those lands as their own.
And that is just as sure as I am alive.”
The Lord is the God of Israel.
10Moab and Ammon will be judged
because they are so proud.
They made fun of the Lord’s people.
They laughed at them.
11The Lord who rules over all will terrify Moab and Ammon.
He will destroy all the gods on earth.
Then distant nations will bow down to him.
All of them will serve him in their own lands.
A Message About Cush
12The Lord says, “People of Cush,
you too will die by my sword.”
A Message About Assyria
13The Lord will reach out his powerful hand against the north.
He will destroy Assyria.
He’ll leave Nineveh totally empty.
It will be as dry as a desert.
14Flocks and herds will lie down there.
So will creatures of every kind.
Desert owls and screech owls
will rest on its pillars.
The sound of their hooting will echo through the windows.
The doorways will be full of trash.
The cedar beams will be showing.
15Nineveh was a carefree city.
It lived in safety.
It said to itself,
“I am the one!
No one is greater than I am.”
But it has been destroyed.
Wild animals make their home there.
All those who pass by laugh
and shake their fists at it.
12:1 2Nya 20:4; Yoe 1:14; 2:16; Yer 3:3; 6:15Kusanyikeni pamoja, kusanyikeni pamoja,
enyi taifa lisilo na aibu,
22:2 Isa 17:13; Hos 13:3; 2Fal 23:26; Yer 4:4; 10:25; Eze 7:19; Mao 4:11kabla ya wakati ulioamriwa haujafika
na siku ile inayopeperusha kama makapi,
kabla hasira kali ya Bwana haijaja juu yenu,
kabla siku ya ghadhabu ya Bwana
haijaja juu yenu.
32:3 Amo 5:6; Yoe 2:4; Isa 1:17; Za 45:4; 57:1; 76:9Mtafuteni Bwana, enyi nyote wanyenyekevu wa nchi,
ninyi ambao hufanya lile analoamuru.
Tafuteni haki, tafuteni unyenyekevu;
labda mtahifadhiwa
siku ya hasira ya Bwana.
Dhidi Ya Ufilisti
42:4 Mwa 10:19; Amo 1:6-8; Zek 9:5-7; Yer 6:4; 47:5Gaza utaachwa
na Ashkeloni utaachwa magofu.
Wakati wa adhuhuri Ashdodi utaachwa mtupu
na Ekroni utangʼolewa.
52:5 1Sam 30:14; Law 26:31; Eze 25:16; Yos 13:3; Isa 14:30Ole wenu ninyi ambao mnaishi kando ya bahari,
enyi Wakerethi;
neno la Bwana liko dhidi yenu,
ee Kanaani, nchi ya Wafilisti.
“Mimi nitawaangamiza,
na hakuna atakayebaki.”
62:6 Isa 5:17; 17:2Nchi kando ya bahari, mahali ambapo wanaishi Wakerethi,
patakuwa mahali pa wachungaji
na mazizi ya kondoo.
72:7 Isa 11:11; Hag 1:12; Mik 5:7; 4:10; Kut 4:31; Lk 1:68; Mwa 45:7; Kum 30:3; Za 126:4; Yer 23:3; 32:44; Hos 6:11; Eze 39:25; Yoe 3:1; Amo 1:6-8Itakuwa mali ya mabaki ya nyumba ya Yuda,
hapo watapata malisho.
Wakati wa jioni watajilaza chini
katika nyumba za Ashkeloni.
Bwana Mungu wao atawatunza,
naye atawarudishia wafungwa wao.
Dhidi Ya Moabu Na Amoni
82:8 Mwa 19:37; Yer 48:27; 49:1; Eze 25:3, 8; 21:28; Mao 3:61; Isa 16:6“Nimeyasikia matukano ya Moabu
nazo dhihaka za Waamoni,
ambao waliwatukana watu wangu
na kutoa vitisho dhidi ya nchi yao.
92:9 Kum 23:6; 29:23; Isa 11:14; Yer 48:1-47; 49:1-6; Eze 25:1-11; 2Fal 19:31; Amo 1:13; 2:1-3Hakika, kama niishivyo,”
asema Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote,
Mungu wa Israeli,
“hakika Moabu itakuwa kama Sodoma,
Waamoni kama Gomora:
mahali pa magugu na mashimo ya chumvi,
nchi ya ukiwa milele.
Mabaki ya watu wangu watawateka nyara;
mabaki ya taifa langu watarithi nchi yao.”
102:10 Ay 40:12; Isa 16:6; Yer 48:27; Za 9:6Hiki ndicho watarudishiwa kwa ajili ya kiburi chao,
kwa kutukana na kudhihaki
watu wa Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote.
112:11 Mwa 49:10; 10:5; Za 2:8; 22:27; Isa 2:2, 3; Mal 1:11; Yn 4:21; 1Tim 2:8; Yoe 2:11; 1Nya 19:1; Eze 25:6-7; Isa 12:4; Za 86:9; Sef 3:9Bwana atakuwa wa kuhofisha kwao
atakapoangamiza miungu yote ya nchi.
Mataifa katika kila pwani yatamwabudu,
kila moja katika nchi yake.
Dhidi Ya Kushi
122:12 Mwa 10:6; Isa 18:1; 20:4; Yer 46:10“Ninyi pia, ee Wakushi,
mtauawa kwa upanga wangu.”
Dhidi Ya Ashuru
132:13 Mwa 10:5-11; Zek 10:11; Mik 5:6Mungu atanyoosha mkono wake dhidi ya kaskazini
na kuangamiza Waashuru,
akiiacha Ninawi ukiwa
na pakame kama jangwa.
142:14 Isa 5:17; 13:21; 14:23; Ufu 18:2; Za 102:6Makundi ya kondoo na ngʼombe yatajilaza pale,
viumbe vya kila aina.
Bundi wa jangwani na bundi waliao kwa sauti nyembamba
wataishi juu ya nguzo zake.
Mwangwi wa kuita kwao utapita madirishani,
kifusi kitakuwa milangoni,
boriti za mierezi zitaachwa wazi.
152:15 Isa 32:9; 47:8; Eze 27:36; 28:2; Ufu 18:7; Yer 49:33; Nah 3:19Huu ndio mji uliotukuka na kuishi kwa furaha
wakijisikia salama.
Ulisema moyoni mwako,
“Mimi ndimi, na wala hapana mwingine ila mimi.”
Jinsi gani umekuwa gofu,
mahali pa kulala wanyama pori!
Wote wanaopita kando yake wanauzomea
na kutikisa mkono kwa dharau.
