Zephaniah 2:5-7

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⁵ You Cretans^[a] living by the sea, this message from the Lord is about you. Canaan, land of the Philistines, you will be destroyed—no one will live there! ⁶ Your land by the sea will become empty fields for shepherds and their sheep. ⁷ Then the land will belong to the survivors from Judah. The Lord their God will remember the people from Judah and restore their fortunes. Then they will let their sheep eat the grass in those fields. In the evenings they will lie down in the empty houses of Ashkelon.