1. Gather together and assemble yourselves, shameless nation,
2. before the decision is made—the day vanishes like chaff—before the burning anger of the Lord comes against you,before the day of the Lord’s anger comes against you.
3. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land who practice his justice;seek righteousness;seek humility.Maybe you will be hidden on the day of the Lord’s anger.
4. Gaza will certainly be abandoned;and Ashkelon destroyed.Ashdod will be driven out at noon;Ekron will be uprooted.
5. Doom, inhabitants of the seacoast,nation of Cretans.The Lord’s word is against you,Canaan, land of the Philistines.I will exterminate you, leaving no inhabitant.
6. The seacoast will become pastureland,with wells for shepherds and pens for the flocks.
7. The coast will belong to the survivors from the house of Judah;they will pasture beside the sea;in the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening.The Lord their God will visit them and restore their possessions.
8. I have heard the taunting of Moaband the defamation of the Ammonites;they taunted my peopleand enlarged their borders.