⁴ For Gaza will be abandoned,
and Ashkelon will become a ruin.
Ashdod will be driven out at noon,
and Ekron will be uprooted.^(A)

²⁰ The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah^[a]
and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath^(A)
as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev.^(B)