¹³ Let the line of his descendants be cut off;
let their name be blotted out in the next generation.^(A)

⁷ But this is not what he intends;
this is not what he plans.
It is his intent to destroy
and to cut off many nations.

²¹ for Death^(A) has climbed through our windows;
it has entered our fortresses,
cutting off children from the streets,
young men from the squares.

⁴ on account of the day that is coming
to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
every remaining ally.^(A)
Indeed, the Lord is about to destroy the Philistines,
the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.^[a](B)

¹⁴ Do not stand at the crossroads^[a](A)
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.