3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,who carry out His judgment.Seek righteousness, seek humility.Perhaps you will be hiddenon the day of the Lord’s anger.
4 For Gaza will be forsaken,and Ashkelon a desolation;Ashdod will be driven out at noon,and Ekron will be uprooted.
5 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,the nation of Kerethites!The word of the Lord is against you,O Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy you,so that there will be no inhabitant.
6 The seacoast will be pastures,with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah,on which they will feed.In the houses of Ashkelonthey will lie down at evening.For the Lord their God will visit themand restore their fortunes.
8 I have heard these taunts of Moab,and the revilings of the Ammonites,by which they have reproached My people,and made boasts against their territory.
9 Therefore, as I live,says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel,surely Moab will be like Sodom,and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a land of weeds and salt pits,and a perpetual desolation.The remnant of My people will plunder them,and the survivors of My nation will possess them.