Zaphan'Yahu (Zephaniah) — 2

YAHUAH Asks People to Change Their Lives

1 Shameless people, change your lives 

2 before you become like a dry and dying flower In the heat of day, a flower will wilt and die. You will be like that when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH shows His terrible anger. So change your lives before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH shows His anger against you! 

3 All you humble people, come to  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH! Obey the laws of  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. Learn to do good things. Learn to be humble. Maybe then you will be safe when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH shows His anger.

YAHUAH Will Punish Yashar'AL’s Neighbors

4 No one will be left in Gaza. Ashkalun will be destroyed. By noon, the people will be forced to leave Ashdud. Akrun will be empty. 

5 You Cratans living by the sea, this message from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is about you. Canaan, land of the Philistines, you will be destroyed, no one will live there! 

6 Your land by the sea will become empty fields for shepherds and their sheep. 

7 Then the land will belong to the survivors from Yahudah,  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH their 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH will remember the people from Yahudah and restore their fortunes, then they will let their sheep eat the grass in those fields. In the evenings they will lie down in the empty houses of Ashkalun.

8 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar, “I know what the people of Muab and Ammun did. They embarrassed my people, they took their land to make their own countries larger. 

9 So, as surely as I Am alive, Muab and the people of Ammun will be destroyed like Sudum and Gumurrah, I Am  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL, and I promise those countries will be destroyed completely forever, their land will be overgrown with weeds. It will be like the land covered with salt by the Dead Sea, the survivors of my people will take that land and everything left in it.”

10 This will happen to the people of Muab and Ammun because they were so proud and cruel and humiliated the people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Tsaba'ut. 

11 They will be afraid of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will destroy their idols, then everyone in all the faraway lands will worship 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. 

12 People of Athiupia, this also means you! 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s sword will kill your people. 

13 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will turn north and punish Assyria, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will destroy Ninabah, that city will be like an empty dry desert. 

14 Only sheep and wild animals will live in those ruins. Owls and crows will sit on the columns that are left standing. Their calls will be heard coming through the windows. Crows will sit on the doorsteps. Black birds will make their homes in those empty houses. 

15 Ninabah is so proud now. It is such a happy city. The people think they are safe. They think Ninabah is the greatest place in the world, but it will be destroyed! It will be an empty place where only wild animals go to rest. People who pass by will whistle and shake their heads when they see how badly the city was destroyed.