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Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.

Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

Moab is my washpot; on Edom is the resting-place of my shoe; over Philistia will I send out a glad cry.

Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,