A Call to Repentance
Or the day passes like chaff,
Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you,
Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!
Who have upheld His justice.
Seek righteousness, seek humility.
cIt may be that you will be hidden
In the day of the Lord’s anger.
Judgment on Nations
And Ashkelon desolate;
They shall drive out Ashdod bat noonday,
And Ekron shall be uprooted.
The nation of the Cherethites!
The word of the Lord is against you,
O bCanaan, land of the Philistines:
“I will destroy you;
So there shall be no inhabitant.”
They shall feed their flocks there;
In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God will bintervene for them,
And creturn their captives.
And bthe insults of the people of Ammon,
With which they have reproached My people,
And cmade arrogant threats against their borders.
Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Surely aMoab shall be like Sodom,
And bthe people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
cOverrun1 with weeds and saltpits,
And a1 perpetual desolation.
The residue of My people shall plunder them,
And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”
Because they have reproached and made arrogant threats
Against the people of the Lord of hosts.
For He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth;
aPeople shall worship Him,
Each one from his place,
Indeed all bthe shores of the nations.
aDestroy Assyria,
And make Nineveh a desolation,
As dry as the wilderness.
aEvery beast of the nation.
Both the bpelican and the bittern
Shall lodge on the capitals of her pillars;
Their voice shall sing in the windows;
Desolation shall be at the threshold;
For He will lay bare the ccedar work.
aThat dwelt securely,
bThat said in her heart,
“I am it, and there is none besides me.”
How has she become a desolation,
A place for beasts to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
cShall hiss and dshake his fist.
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American Standard Version
before the decree bring forth, `before' the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, before the day of Jehovah's anger come upon you.
Amplified® Bible
[The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind!] Therefore consider, before God's decree brings forth [the curse upon you], before the time [to repent] is gone like the drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes upon you--yes, before the day of the wrath of the Lord comes upon you!
Contemporary English Version
before it's too late. The LORD has set a time when his fierce anger will strike like a storm and sweep you away.
Darby English Version
before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass away as chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, before the day of Jehovah's anger come upon you.
Good News Bible
before you are driven away like chaff blown by the wind, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day when he shows his fury.
King James Version
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
New American Standard Bible
Before the decree takes effect-- The day passes like the chaff-- Before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, Before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.
New International Version
before the appointed time arrives
and that day sweeps on like chaff,
before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you,
before the day of the LORD's wrath comes upon you.
New King James Version
Before the decree is issued,
Or the day passes like chaff,
Before the LORD's fierce anger comes upon you,
Before the day of the LORD's anger comes upon you!
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Before the decree takes effect-- The day passes like the chaff--Before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, Before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.
Revised Standard Version
before you are driven away like the drifting chaff, before there comes upon you the fierce anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the wrath of the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
Before the bringing forth of a statute, As chaff hath the day passed on, While yet not come in upon you doth the heat of the anger of Jehovah, While yet not come in upon you doth a day of the anger of Jehovah,
New English Translation
before God’s decree becomes reality1 and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff,2 before the Lord’s raging anger3 overtakes4 you – before the day of the Lord’s angry judgment overtakes you!
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