For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a ruin. They shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction. She trusted not in Jehovah; she did not draw near to her God.

Therefore wait for Me, says Jehovah, for the day I rise up to the prey; for My judgment is to gather the nations, for Me to collect the kingdoms, to pour on them My fury, all My hot anger. For all the earth shall be burned up with the fire of My jealousy.

I will gather the afflicted ones from the appointed place; they were from you, a lifting up of reproach over her.