The burden of the beasts of the south: Into the land of distress and constraint. The lioness and the lion are from them; the viper and fiery flying serpent. They lift up their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who cannot profit them.
Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, fugitives of the nations; the ones who set up the wood of their carved image, and the ones who pray to a god who does not save; they know nothing.
For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be captured. And Chemosh shall go into exile; his priests and his rulers together.
And he will also bring their gods with their molten images, with silver and gold vessels of their possessions, into exile to Egypt. And for years he will stand away from the king of the north.
And Jehovah has commanded concerning you. Not one of your name shall be sown any more; I will cut off the carved image and the molten image out of the house of your gods; I will appoint your grave, for you are despised.
And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and the priest, and you are going, and what more do I have? What is this you say to me, What ails you?
And the men of Ashdod rose early on the next day. And, behold! Dagon had fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah! And they took Dagon and put it back in its place.