1. Gather yourselves together;gather together, undesirable nation,
2. before the decree takes effectand the day passes like chaff,before the burning of the Lord’s anger overtakes you,before the day of the Lord’s anger overtakes you.
3. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth,who carry out what He commands.Seek righteousness, seek humility;perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the Lord’s anger.
4. For Gaza will be abandoned,and Ashkelon will become a ruin.Ashdod will be driven out at noon,and Ekron will be uprooted.
5. Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast,nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines:I will destroy you until there is no one left.
6. The seacoast will become pasturelandswith caves for shepherds and folds for sheep.
7. The coastland will belongto the remnant of the house of Judah;they will find pasture there.They will lie down in the eveningamong the houses of Ashkelon,for the Lord their God will return to themand restore their fortunes.