3 Seek the Lord,all you humble of the land,who have observed his law;Seek justice,seek humility;Perhaps you will be shelteredon the day of the Lord’s anger.
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken,and Ashkelon shall be a waste,Ashdod they shall drive out at midday,and Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Ah! You who dwell by the seacoast,the nation of Cherethites,the word of the Lord is against you!O Canaan, land of the Philistines,I will leave you to perish without an inhabitant!
6 You shall become fields for shepherds,and folds for flocks.
7 The seacoast shall belongto the remnant of the house of Judah;by the sea they shall pasture.In the houses of Ashkelonthey shall lie down in the evening.For the Lord their God will take care of them,and bring about their restoration.
8 I have heard the taunts uttered by Moab,and the insults of the Ammonites,When they taunted my peopleand made boasts against their territory.
9 Therefore, as I live—oracle of the Lord of hosts—the God of Israel,Moab shall become like Sodom,the Ammonites like Gomorrah:A field of weeds,a salt pit,a waste forever.The remnant of my people shall plunder them,the survivors of my nation dispossess them.