⁵ Gaza will shave its head in mourning.
    Ashkelon will be destroyed.
    How long will you cut yourselves, you people left on the plains?
⁶ You cry out, “Sword of Yahweh,
    how long will you keep on fighting?
        Go back into your scabbard.
            Stay there and rest!”
⁷ How can the sword of Yahweh rest?
    Yahweh has ordered it to attack Ashkelon and the coast.
        He has put it there.