4For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon left in ruins. At midday, they shall abandon Ashdod, and Ekron shall be uprooted. 5Woe to you live by the seacoast, you Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, land of the Philistines, I will annihilate you, leaving you be no inhabitants. 6And the seacoast shall become a wilderness pasture and folds for shepherds and their flocks. 7And that land shall belong to the remnant of the people of Judah; they shall find pasture there; they shall lie down in the evening in the houses of Ashkelon; for the LORD, their God, shall visit them, and restore their captivity.

8I have heard the insults of Moab, and the taunts of the children of Ammon, by which they have offended My people, and made threats against their land. 9Therefore, as surely as I live”, says the LORD of hosts”, the God of Israel, “Surely Moab shall become like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, - a place of nettles (obnoxious weeds), and salt pits, and a perpetual wasteland; the remnant of My people shall plunder and possess them. 10This is what they shall get for their arrogance, because they have mocked and gloated over the people of the LORD Almighty. 11The LORD will be put them in awe; for He will famish destroy all the false gods of the earth; and men shall worship Him, everyone from his place, even all those from the coasts and in their own lands shall bow down to Him.

12You Ethiopians (Cushites) also, you shall be slain by My sword. 13And He will stretch out His hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will leave Nineveh utterly desolated, and dry as a desert. 14And flocks shall lie down in her midst – creatures of all kinds - both the cormorant and the porcupine shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; the desert owl and screech owls shall roost in her columns; their hooting shall be heard through the windows; for He shall expose the fine cedar work to the weather. 15This is the city of revelry that dwelt securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is none like me”. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Every one that passes by her shall hiss, and wag his head.