Zep 2:4, 7 | ESV | STEP | For Gaza shall be deserted , and Ashkelon shall become a desolation ; Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon , and Ekron shall be uprooted .

a Zech. 9:5, 6; [Jer. 47:5]; See Amos 1:6-8

d[See ver. 6 above]

Zephaniah 2:4

4 ^aFor Gaza shall be deserted,
and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;
Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon,
and Ekron shall be uprooted.

Zephaniah 2:7

7 ^bThe seacoast shall become the possession
of ^cthe remnant of the house of Judah,
^don which they shall graze,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God ^ewill be mindful of them
and ^frestore their fortunes.