⁵ Ashkelon shall see it and be afraid;
    Gaza, too, and shall writhe in anguish;
    Ekron also, because its hopes are withered.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
    Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;^(A)
6 a mongrel people shall settle in Ashdod,
    and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.^(B)
7 I will take away its blood from its mouth
    and its abominations from between its teeth;
it, too, shall be a remnant for our God;
    it shall be like a clan in Judah,
    and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.^(C)

⁵ Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast,
    you nation of the Cherethites!
The word of the Lord is against you,
    O Canaan, land of the Philistines,
    and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.^(B)
6 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures,
    meadows for shepherds,
    and folds for flocks.^(C)
7 The seacoast shall become the possession
    of the remnant of the house of Judah,
    on which they shall pasture,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
    they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God will be mindful of them
    and restore their fortunes.^(D)

⁶ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Gaza,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^[a]
because they carried into exile entire communities,
    to hand them over to Edom.^(A)
7 So I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
    and it shall devour its strongholds.
⁸ I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod
    and the one 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.^(B)