1. Gather together, gather yourselves together,you shameful nation,
2. before the decree takes effectand that day passes like windblown chaff,before the Lord’s fierce angercomes upon you,before the day of the Lord’s wrathcomes upon you.
3. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,you who do what he commands.Seek righteousness, seek humility;perhaps you will be shelteredon the day of the Lord’s anger.
4. Gaza will be abandonedand Ashkelon left in ruins.At midday Ashdod will be emptiedand Ekron uprooted.
5. Woe to you who live by the sea,you Kerethite people;the word of the Lord is against you,Canaan, land of the Philistines.He says, ‘I will destroy you,and none will be left.’
6. The land by the sea will become pastureshaving wells for shepherdsand sheepfolds for flocks.
7. That land will belongto the remnant of the people of Judah;there they will find pasture.In the evening they will lie downin the houses of Ashkelon.The Lord their God will care for them;he will restore their fortunes.
8. ‘I have heard the insults of Moaband the taunts of the Ammonites,who insulted my peopleand made threats against their land.