⁵ Woe to ^(K)you inhabitants of the seacoast,
    you nation of ^(L)the Cherethites!
^(M)The word of the Lord is against you,
    ^(N)O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
    and I will destroy you ^(O)until no inhabitant is left.
^6 (P)And you, O seacoast, ^(Q)shall be pastures,
    with meadows^[c] for shepherds
    and folds for flocks.
^7 (R)The seacoast shall become the possession
    of ^(S)the remnant of the house of Judah,
    ^(T)on which they shall graze,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
    they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God ^(U)will be mindful of them
    and ^(V)restore their fortunes.

⁸ “I have heard ^(W)the taunts of Moab
    and ^(X)the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
    and made boasts ^(Y)against their territory.
⁹ Therefore, ^(Z)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become ^(AA)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites ^(AB)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
¹⁰ This shall be their lot in return ^(AC)for their pride,
    because they taunted and boasted
    against the people of the Lord of hosts.
¹¹ The Lord will be awesome against them;
    ^(AD)for he will famish all the gods of the earth,
and ^(AE)to him shall bow down,
    each in its place,
    all ^(AF)the lands of the nations.

^12 (AG)You also, O Cushites,
    shall be slain by my sword.

¹³ And he will stretch out his hand against the north
    ^(AH)and destroy Assyria,
and he ^(AI)will make Nineveh a desolation,
    a dry waste like the desert.
^14 (AJ)Herds shall lie down in her midst,
    all kinds of beasts;^[d]
(AK)even the owl and the hedgehog^[e]
    shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
    devastation will be on the threshold;
    for ^(AL)her cedar work will be laid bare.
¹⁵ This is the exultant city
    ^(AM)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
    ^(AN)a lair for wild beasts!
^(AO)Everyone who passes by her
    hisses and ^(AP)shakes his fist.

^(G)“The Lord roars from Zion
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
^(H)the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
    and the ^(I)top of ^(J)Carmel withers.”

^(K)“For three transgressions of ^(L)Damascus,
    and for four, ^(M)I will not revoke the punishment,^[c]
because they have threshed ^(N)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.
^4 (O)So I will send a fire upon the house of ^(P)Hazael,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(Q)Ben-hadad.
⁵ I will ^(R)break the gate-bar of ^(S)Damascus,
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of ^(T)Aven,^[d]
and him who holds the scepter from ^(U)Beth-eden;
    and the people of ^(V)Syria shall go into exile to ^(W)Kir,”
says the Lord.

^(X)“For three transgressions of ^(Y)Gaza,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(Z)they carried into exile a whole people
    to deliver them up to Edom.
⁷ So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^(AA)Gaza,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.
⁸ I will cut off the inhabitants from ^(AB)Ashdod,
    and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
    and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”
says the Lord God.

^(AC)“For three transgressions of ^(AD)Tyre,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
    and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
¹⁰ So I will send a fire upon the wall of ^(AE)Tyre,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.”

^(AF)“For three transgressions of ^(AG)Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
^(AH)because he pursued his brother with the sword
    ^(AI)and cast off all pity,
^(AJ)and his anger tore perpetually,
    ^(AK)and he kept his wrath forever.
¹² So I will send a fire upon ^(AL)Teman,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(AM)Bozrah.”

^(AN)“For three transgressions of the ^(AO)Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^(AP)they have ripped open pregnant women in ^(AQ)Gilead,
    that they might enlarge their border.
¹⁴ So I will kindle a fire in the wall of ^(AR)Rabbah,
    ^(AS)and it shall devour her strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
    ^(AT)with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
¹⁵ and ^(AU)their king shall go into exile,
    he and his princes^[e] together,”
says the Lord.

² “Thus says the Lord:
^(C)Behold, waters are rising ^(D)out of the north,
    ^(E)and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow ^(F)the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
Men shall cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
³ At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    ^(G)at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
the fathers ^(H)look not back to their children,
    so feeble are their hands,
⁴ because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all ^(I)the Philistines,
to cut off from ^(J)Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    ^(K)the remnant of the coastland of ^(L)Caphtor.
^5 (M)Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    ^(N)Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
    ^(O)how long will you gash yourselves?
^6 (P)Ah, sword of the Lord!
    How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
    rest and be still!
⁷ How can it^[a] be quiet
    ^(Q)when the Lord has given it a charge?
Against ^(R)Ashkelon and against the seashore
    ^(S)he has appointed it.”