¹Gather together and assemble yourselves, shameless nation,

³Seek the LORD , all you humble of the land who practice his justice;

Oracles against foreign nations

⁴Gaza will certainly be abandoned;

Ashdod will be driven out at noon;

⁵Doom, inhabitants of the seacoast,

The LORD ’s word is against you,

I will exterminate you, leaving no inhabitant.

⁶The seacoast will become pastureland,

⁷The coast will belong to the survivors from the house of Judah;

⁸I have heard the taunting of Moab

⁹Therefore, as I live—

says the LORD of heavenly forces, the God of Israel—

The few remaining from my people will plunder them;

¹⁰This will happen on account of their pride,

¹¹The LORD will terrify them;

¹²Moreover, you too, Cushites, will be pierced by my sword.

¹³He will stretch out his hand against the north

Let him make Nineveh a desolation,

¹⁴Flocks will lie down in its midst,

Moreover, the owl and the porcupine will spend the night on its columns.

A bird’s call will resound from the window.

Desolation will be on the sill,

¹⁵This is the jubilant city,

How she has become a desolation,

All those who pass through her hiss and shake their fist.