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Zephaniah 2:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast, nation of the Cherethites!  , The word of the  Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy you until there is no one left.

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therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines,  cutting off the Cherethites and wiping out what remains of the coastal peoples.  ,


How can it  rest when the Lord has given it a command? He has assigned it against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.


Listen to this message that the Lord has spoken against you, Israelites, against the entire clan that I brought from the land of Egypt:


from the Shihor east of Egypt to the border of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory) #– #the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as the Avvites


They were looking for a way to arrest him but feared the crowd because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. So they left him and went away.


But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? ” ’ So the people repented and said, ‘As the Lord of Armies decided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.’


I have cut off nations; their corner towers  are destroyed. I have laid waste their streets, with no one to pass through. Their cities lie devastated, without a person, without an inhabitant.


Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,  house of Israel:


Then the firstborn  of the poor will be well fed, and the impoverished will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root with hunger, and your remnant will be slain.


These nations included the five rulers  of the Philistines  and all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians,  and the Hivites  who lived in the Lebanese mountains from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.


We raided the south country of the Cherethites,  the territory of Judah, and the south country of Caleb,  and we burned Ziklag.’


Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia, because the rod of the one who struck you  is broken. For a viper will come from the root  of a snake, and from its egg comes a flying serpent.


Wail, you residents of the Hollow, for all the merchants  will be silenced; all those loaded with silver will be cut off.


This is the land that remains: All the districts of the Philistines and the Geshurites:





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