3. Seek the Lord’s favor, all you humble people of the land who have obeyed his commands!Strive to do what is right! Strive to be humble!Maybe you will be protected on the day of the Lord’s angry judgment.
4. Indeed, Gaza will be desertedand Ashkelon will become a heap of ruins.Invaders will drive away the people of Ashdod by noon,and Ekron will be overthrown.
5. Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete, are as good as dead.The Lord has decreed your downfall, Canaan, land of the Philistines:“I will destroy everyone who lives there!”
6. The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherdsand as pens for their flocks.