⁵ Gaza will shave^(A) her head in mourning;
    Ashkelon^(B) will be silenced.
You remnant on the plain,
    how long will you cut^(C) yourselves?

“For three sins of Gaza,^(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.^(B)
Because she took captive whole communities
    and sold them to Edom,^(C)
7 I will send fire on the walls of Gaza
    that will consume her fortresses.
⁸ I will destroy the king^[a] of Ashdod^(D)
    and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon.
I will turn my hand^(E) against Ekron,
    till the last of the Philistines^(F) are dead,”^(G)
says the Sovereign Lord.^(H)