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.
9. Therefore, as I live—says the Lord of heavenly forces, the God of Israel—Moab will become like Sodomand the Ammonites like Gomorrah:a plot of weeds, salt pits, and devastation forever.The few remaining from my people will plunder them;the rest of my nation will possess them.