4. No one will be left in the city of Gaza.The city of Ashkelon will be destroyed.Ashdod will be empty by noon.And the people of Ekron will be chased away.
5. How terrible it will be for you who live by the Mediterranean Sea,you Philistines!This message from the Lord is for you,people of Canaan, land of the Philistines.“I will destroy you.No one will be left.”
6. You live in the land by the Mediterranean Sea.It will be a place for shepherds and sheep.
7. Your land will belong to the descendants of Judah who are left alive.There they will let their sheep eat grass.At night they will sleepin the houses of Ashkelon.The Lord their God will come to be with them.He will give them back their riches.
8. “I heard the country of Moab insult my people.The country of Ammon threatened to take their land.”
9. So the Lord of heaven’s armies, the God of Israel, says,“As surely as I live,Moab will be destroyed like Sodom.Ammon will be destroyed like Gomorrah.Their land will be covered with weeds and salt.It will be destroyed forever.Those of my people who are left alive will take whatever they want from them.Those who are left from my nation will take their land.”
10. This is what Moab and Ammon get for being proud.This will happen because they insulted and made fun of the people of the Lord of heaven’s armies.
11. Those people will be afraid of the Lord.He will destroy all the gods of the earth.Then those people in faraway placeswill worship the Lord in their own countries.