<p class="poetry">The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning.p> <p class="poetry">The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb.p> <p class="poetry">How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who remain of Philistia&#8217;s power?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen! News is coming even now.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The rumble of a great army is heard approaching<n id="2" /> from a land in the north.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,p> <p class="poetry">places where only jackals live.p>

<p class="poetry">The mother who had seven children<n id="1" /> will grow faint.p> <p class="poetry">All the breath will go out of her.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life.p> <p class="poetry">It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">She will suffer shame and humiliation.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">I will cause any of them who are still left alivep> <p class="poetry">to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,&#8221;<n id="5" />p> <p class="bodytext">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>