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.
10. This will be the recompense for their pride,because they taunted and boasted againstthe people of the Lord of hosts.
11. The Lord shall inspire them with terrorwhen he makes all the gods of earth waste away;Then the distant shores of the nations,each from its own place,shall bow down to him.