⁴ For the day has come
    to destroy all the Philistines
and to remove all survivors
    who could help Tyre^(A) and Sidon.^(B)
The Lord is about to destroy the Philistines,^(C)
    the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.^[a](D)

¹⁵ Why do you cry out over your wound,
    your pain that has no cure?^(A)
Because of your great guilt and many sins
    I have done these things to you.^(B)

¹⁶ “‘But all who devour^(C) you will be devoured;
    all your enemies will go into exile.^(D)
Those who plunder^(E) you will be plundered;
    all who make spoil of you I will despoil.
¹⁷ But I will restore you to health
    and heal^(F) your wounds,’
declares the Lord,
‘because you are called an outcast,^(G)
    Zion for whom no one cares.’^(H)

“In repentance and rest^(C) is your salvation,
    in quietness and trust^(D) is your strength,
    but you would have none of it.^(E)
16 You said, ‘No, we will flee^(F) on horses.’^(G)
    Therefore you will flee!
You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’
    Therefore your pursuers will be swift!

Through a land of hardship and distress,^(Q)
    of lions^(R) and lionesses,
    of adders and darting snakes,^(S)
the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’^(T) backs,
    their treasures^(U) on the humps of camels,
to that unprofitable nation,
⁷     to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.^(V)
Therefore I call her
    Rahab^(W) the Do-Nothing.