Zephaniah 2
1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
to assemble and to assemble [the] nation not to long
2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yhwh come upon you, before the day of Yhwh's anger come upon you.
in/on/with before to beget statute: decree like/as chaff to pass day in/on/with before not to come (in): come upon you burning anger face: anger LORD in/on/with before not to come (in): come upon you day face: anger LORD
3 Seek ye Yhwh, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of Yhwh's anger.
to seek [obj] LORD all poor [the] land: country/planet which justice his to work to seek righteousness to seek humility perhaps to hide in/on/with day face: anger LORD
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
for Gaza to leave: forsake to be and Ashkelon to/for devastation Ashdod in/on/with midday to drive out: drive out her and Ekron to uproot
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of Yhwh is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
woe! to dwell cord [the] sea nation Cherethite word LORD upon you Canaan land: country/planet Philistine and to perish you from nothing to dwell
6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
and to be cord [the] sea pasture hollow to pasture and wall flock
7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for Yhwh their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
and to be cord to/for remnant house: household Judah upon them to pasture [emph?] in/on/with house: home Ashkelon in/on/with evening to stretch [emph?] for to reckon: visit them LORD God their and to return: rescue (captivity their *Q(k)*)
8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
to hear: hear reproach Moab and reviling son: descendant/people Ammon which to taunt [obj] people my and to magnify upon border: area their
9 Therefore as I live, saith Yhwh of Armies, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
to/for so alive I utterance LORD Hosts God Israel for Moab like/as Sodom to be and son: descendant/people Ammon like/as Gomorrah possession nettle and pit salt and devastation till forever: enduring remnant people my to plunder them and remainder (nation my *Q(K)*) to inherit them
10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yhwh of Armies.
this to/for them underneath: instead pride their for to taunt and to magnify upon people LORD Hosts
11 Yhwh will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
to fear: revere LORD upon them for to starve [obj] all God [the] land: country/planet and to bow to/for him man: anyone from place his all coastland [the] nation
12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
also you(m. p.) Ethiopian slain: killed sword my they(masc.)
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
and to stretch hand his upon north and to perish [obj] Assyria and to set: make [obj] Nineveh to/for devastation dryness like/as wilderness
14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
and to stretch in/on/with midst her flock all living thing nation also pelican also porcupine in/on/with capital her to lodge voice to sing in/on/with window desolation in/on/with threshold for cedar to uncover
15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
this [the] city [the] jubilant [the] to dwell to/for security [the] to say in/on/with heart her I and end I still how? to be to/for horror: destroyed resting to/for living thing all to pass upon her to whistle to shake hand his
