So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they have carried into exile, to deliver up a complete population to Edom.
And the Philistines had raided against the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and captured Bethshemesh and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho and its daughter villages, and Timnah and its daughter villages, and Gimzo and its daughter villages, and dwelt there.
Because there was to you never-ending enmity, and you poured out the sons of Israel onto the hands of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end.
And also, what are you to Me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you restoring recompense to Me? And if you are dealing fully with Me, I will turn back your recompense on your own head, swiftly, speedily,
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he pursued his brother with the sword, and corrupted his compassions, and his anger has torn perpetually, and he kept it, his wrath, forever.
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they shut up into exile a complete population to Edom and did not remember the covenant of brothers.
On the day of your standing opposite, on the day that the strangers were taking captive his force, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
Ashkelon shall see and fear; and Gaza shall writhe in great pain; and Ekron shall be ashamed for her hope. And the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
And these were the golden hemorrhoids which the Philistines sent back as a guilt offering to Jehovah: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;