Zephaniah 2:4-10

4Gaza and Ashkelon will be abandoned, Ashdod and Ekron torn down.

5And what sorrow awaits you Philistines who live along the coast and in the land of Canaan, for this judgment is against you, too! The Lord will destroy you until not one of you is left.

6The Philistine coast will become a wilderness pasture, a place of shepherd camps and enclosures for sheep and goats.

7The remnant of the tribe of Judah will pasture there. They will rest at night in the abandoned houses in Ashkelon. For the Lord their God will visit his people in kindness and restore their prosperity again.

8“I have heard the taunts of the Moabites and the insults of the Ammonites, mocking my people and invading their borders.

9Now, as surely as I live,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, “Moab and Ammon will be destroyed— destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah. Their land will become a place of stinging nettles, salt pits, and eternal desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them and take their land.”

10They will receive the wages of their pride, for they have scoffed at the people of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.