5. And what sorrow awaits you Philistineswho live along the coast and in the land of Canaan,for this judgment is against you, too!The lord will destroy youuntil not one of you is left.
6. The Philistine coast will become a wilderness pasture,a place of shepherd campsand enclosures for sheep and goats.
7. The remnant of the tribe of Judah will pasture there.They will rest at night in the abandoned houses in Ashkelon.For the lord their God will visit his people in kindnessand restore their prosperity again.
8. “I have heard the taunts of the Moabitesand the insults of the Ammonites,mocking my peopleand invading their borders.
9. Now, as surely as I live,”says the lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“Moab and Ammon will be destroyed—destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.Their land will become a place of stinging nettles,salt pits, and eternal desolation.The remnant of my people will plunder themand take their land.”