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    "language": "en",
    "book": "zephaniah",
    "chapter": 2
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    "n": 2,
    "bookSlug": "zephaniah",
    "bookCode": "ZEP",
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    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:1",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.1",
        "text": "Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation that hath no shame;"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:2",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.2",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:3",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.3",
        "text": "Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah`s anger."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:4",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.4",
        "text": "For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:5",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.5",
        "text": "Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:6",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.6",
        "text": "And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:7",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.7",
        "text": "And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed [their flocks] thereupon; in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for Jehovah their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:8",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.8",
        "text": "I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:9",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.9",
        "text": "Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:10",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.10",
        "text": "This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:11",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.11",
        "text": "Jehovah 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 nations."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:12",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.12",
        "text": "Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:13",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.13",
        "text": "And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:14",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.14",
        "text": "And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals thereof; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar-work."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ZEP-2:15",
        "verseRef": "ZEP.2.15",
        "text": "This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides 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."
      }
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