1. Gather together, gather,you unwanted people.
2. Do it before it’s too late,before you are blown away like chaff,before the Lord’s terrible anger reaches you,before the day of the Lord’s anger comes to you.
3. Come to the Lord, all you who are not proud,who obey his laws.Do what is right. Learn to be humble.Maybe you will escapeon the day the Lord shows his anger.
4. No one will be left in the city of Gaza,and 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!The word of the Lord is against you,Canaan, land of the Philistines.“I will destroy youso that no one will be left.”
6. The land by the Mediterranean Sea, in which you live,will become pastures, fields for shepherds, and pens for sheep.
7. It 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 pay attention to themand will make their life good again.
8. “I have heard the insults of the country of Moaband the threats of the people of Ammon.They have insulted my peopleand have taken their land.”