2:4 Indeed, Gaza will be deserted
and Ashkelon will become a heap of ruins.
Invaders will drive away the people of Ashdod by noon,
and Ekron will be overthrown.
2:5 Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete, are as good as dead.
The Lord has decreed your downfall, Canaan, land of the Philistines:
“I will destroy everyone who lives there!”
2:6 The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds
and as pens for their flocks.