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.
10 This will happen on account of their pride,because they taunted and boasted over the people of the Lord of heavenly forces.