²¹ It shall be in that day
That a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;
²² So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give,
That he will eat curds;
For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.

⁶ The seacoast shall be pastures,
With ^[a]shelters for shepherds ^(E)and folds for flocks.
⁷ The coast shall be for ^(F)the remnant of the house of Judah;
They shall feed their flocks there;
In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God will ^(G)intervene^[b] for them,
And ^(H)return their captives.

⁵ Ashkelon shall see it and fear;
Gaza also shall be very sorrowful;
And ^(A)Ekron, for He dried up her expectation.
The king shall perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

⁶ “A^[a] mixed race shall settle ^(B)in Ashdod,
And I will cut off the pride of the ^(C)Philistines.
⁷ I will take away the blood from his mouth,
And the abominations from between his teeth.
But he who remains, even he shall be for our God,
And shall be like a leader in Judah,
And Ekron like a Jebusite.

“For three transgressions of ^(A)Gaza, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they took captive the whole captivity
To deliver them up to Edom.
^7 (B)But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,
Which shall devour its palaces.
⁸ I will cut off the inhabitant ^(C)from Ashdod,
And the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will ^(D)turn My hand against Ekron,
And ^(E)the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”
Says the Lord God.

⁴ “Indeed, what have you to do with Me,
^(A)O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?
Will you ^[a]retaliate against Me?
But if you ^[b]retaliate against Me,
Swiftly and speedily I will return your ^[c]retaliation upon your own head;
⁵ Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have carried into your temples My ^[d]prized possessions.
⁶ Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem
You have sold to the Greeks,
That you may remove them far from their borders.

⁷ “Behold, ^(B)I will raise them
Out of the place to which you have sold them,
And will return your ^[e]retaliation upon your own head.
⁸ I will sell your sons and your daughters
Into the hand of the people of Judah,
And they will sell them to the ^(C)Sabeans,^[f]
To a people ^(D)far off;
For the Lord has spoken.”

“Behold, ^(C)waters rise ^(D)out of the north,
And shall be an overflowing flood;
They shall overflow the land and all that is in it,
The city and those who dwell within;
Then the men shall cry,
And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
³ At the ^(E)noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses,
At the rushing of his chariots,
At the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers will not look back for their children,
^[a]Lacking courage,
⁴ Because of the day that comes to plunder all the ^(F)Philistines,
To cut off from ^(G)Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains;
For the Lord shall plunder the Philistines,
^(H)The remnant of the country of ^(I)Caphtor.^[b]
5 (J)Baldness has come upon Gaza,
^(K)Ashkelon is cut off
With the remnant of their valley.
How long will you cut yourself?

⁶ “O you ^(L)sword of the Lord,
How long until you are quiet?
Put yourself up into your scabbard,
Rest and be still!
⁷ How can ^[c]it be quiet,
Seeing the Lord has ^(M)given it a charge
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore?
There He has ^(N)appointed it.”

“Behold, My servants shall eat,
But you shall be hungry;
Behold, My servants shall drink,
But you shall be thirsty;
Behold, My servants shall rejoice,
But you shall be ashamed;
¹⁴ Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart,
But you shall cry for sorrow of heart,
And ^(A)wail for ^[a]grief of spirit.