3 If you humbly obey the Lord,then come and worship him.If you do right and are humble,perhaps you will be safeon that day when the Lordturns loose his anger.
4 Gaza and Ashkelonwill be desertedand left in ruins.Ashdod will be emptiedin broad daylight,and Ekron uprooted.
5 To you people of Philistiawho live along the coast,the Lord has this to say:“I am now your enemy,and I'll wipe you out!”
6 Your seacoast will be changedinto pasturelandand sheep pens.
7 The Lord God hasn't forgottenthose survivors in Judah,and he will help them—his people will take your landto use for pasture.And when evening comes,they will restin houses at Ashkelon.*
8 The Lord All-Powerful,the God of Israel, said:I've heard Moab and Ammoninsult my peopleand threaten their nation.
9 And so, I swear by my very lifethat Moab and Ammon will end uplike Sodom and Gomorrah—covered with thornbushesand salt pits forever.Then my people who survivewill take their land.