The Tanach, with the evidence built in
This is the complete Hebrew Bible in the Jewish Publication Society translation. Wherever a real archaeological find bears on the text, those words are underlined in gold✦. Hover over them or tap them to see the artifact and what it confirms. From there, Next find takes you to the next underline, so you can tour a whole book’s evidence, and the share button turns the verse into an image.
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Chapter 2
1Gather together, gather,O nation without shame,
2Before the day the decree is born—The day flies by like chaff—Before the fierce angerOf the LORD overtakes you,Before the day of angerOf the LORD overtakes you.
3Seek the LORD,All you humble of the landWho have fulfilled His law;Seek righteousness,Seek humility.Perhaps you will find shelterOn the day of the LORD’s anger.
4Indeed, Gaza shall be desertedAnd Ashkelon desolate;Ashdod’s people shall be expelled in broad daylight,And Ekron shall be uprooted✦.
5Ah, nation of CherethitesWho inhabit the seacoast!There is a word of the LORD against you,O Canaan, land of the Philistines:I will lay you wasteWithout inhabitants.
6The seacoast Cheroth shall becomeAn abode for shepherds and folds for flocks,
7And shall be a portion for the remnant of the House of Judah;On these [pastures] they shall graze [their flocks],They shall lie down at eventideIn the houses of Ashkelon.For the LORD their God will take note of themAnd restore their fortunes.
8I have heard the insults of MoabAnd the jeers of the Ammonites,Who have insulted My peopleAnd gloated over their country.
9Assuredly, as I live—declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel—Moab shall become like SodomAnd the Ammonites like Gomorrah:Clumps of weeds and patches of salt,And desolation evermore.The remnant of My people shall plunder them,The remainder of My nation shall possess them.
10That is what they’ll get for their haughtiness,For insulting and jeeringAt the people of the LORD of Hosts.
11The LORD will show Himself terrible against them,Causing all the gods on earth to shrivel;And all the coastlands of the nationsShall bow down to Him—Every man in his own home.
12You Cushites too—They shall be slain by My sword.
13And He will stretch out His arm against the northAnd destroy Assyria;He will make Nineveh a desolation✦,Arid as the desert.
14In it flocks shall lie down,Every species of beast,While jackdaws and owls roost on its capitals,The great owl hoots in the window,And the raven [croaks] on the threshold.For he has stripped its cedarwork bare.
15Is this the gay cityThat dwelt secure,That thought in her heart,“I am, and there is none but me”?Alas, she is become a waste,A lair of wild beasts!Everyone who passes by herHisses and gestures with his hand.
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).