3 Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,Who have upheld His justice.Seek righteousness, seek humility.It may be that you will be hiddenIn the day of the Lord’s anger.
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken,And Ashkelon desolate;They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday,And Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,The nation of the Cherethites!The word of the Lord is against you,O Canaan, land of the Philistines:“I will destroy you;So there shall be no inhabitant.”
6 The seacoast shall be pastures,With shelters for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;They shall feed their flocks there;In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening.For the Lord their God will intervene for them,And return their captives.
8 “I have heard the reproach of Moab,And the insults of the people of Ammon,With which they have reproached My people,And made arrogant threats against their borders.
9 Therefore, as I live,”Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,“Surely Moab shall be like Sodom,And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—Overrun with weeds and saltpits,And a perpetual desolation.The residue of My people shall plunder them,And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”