1. Gather yourselves together;gather together, undesirable nation,
2. before the decree takes effectand the day passes like chaff,before the burning of the Lord’s anger overtakes you,before the day of the Lord’s anger overtakes you.
3. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth,who carry out what He commands.Seek righteousness, seek humility;perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the Lord’s anger.
4. For Gaza will be abandoned,and Ashkelon will become a ruin.Ashdod will be driven out at noon,and Ekron will be uprooted.
5. Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast,nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines:I will destroy you until there is no one left.