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.”
9. So the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says,“As surely as I live,Moab will be destroyed like Sodom,and Ammon will be destroyed like Gomorrah—a heap of weeds, a pit of salt,and a ruin 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,because they insulted and made fun of the people of the Lord All-Powerful.