“For three transgressions of ^pGaza,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,

because they carried into exile a whole people

to deliver them up to Edom.

7  So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza,

and it shall devour her strongholds.

4  ^xFor ^yGaza shall be deserted,

and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;

Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon,

and Ekron shall be uprooted.