5Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast,
you nation of the Cherethites!
The word of Yahweh is against you,
O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
and I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left.
6And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures,
meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7The seacoast shall become the possession
of the remnant of the house of Judah,
on which they shall pasture,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
they shall lie down at evening.
For Yahweh their God will be mindful of them
and restore their fortunes.
8"I have heard the taunts of Moab
and the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
and made boasts against their territory.
9Therefore, as I live," says Yahweh of hosts,
the God of Israel,
"Moab shall become like Sodom,
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
and a waste for ever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
10This shall be their lot in return for their pride,
because they scoffed and boasted
against the people of Yahweh of hosts.
11Yahweh will be terrible against them;
yea, he will famish all the gods of the earth,
and to him shall bow down,
each in its place,
all the lands of the nations.
12You also, O Ethiopians,
shall be slain by my sword.
13And he will stretch out his hand against the north,
and destroy Assyria;
and he will make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.
14Herds shall lie down in the midst of her,
all the beasts of the field;
the vulture and the hedgehog
shall lodge in her capitals;
the owl shall hoot in the window,
the raven croak on the threshold;
for her cedar work will be laid bare.
15This is the exultant city
that dwelt secure,
that said to herself,
"I am and there is none else."
What a desolation she has become,
a lair for wild beasts!
Every one who passes by her
hisses and shakes his fist.
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