Zephniah 2:4 - For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Zephaniah 2: 5 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

The Message Translation:
Zephaniah 2:4 - Gaza is scheduled for demolition, Ashdod will be cleaned out by high noon, Ekron pulled out by the roots.

Zephaniah 2:5 - Doom to the seaside people, the seafaring people from Crete! The Word of GOD is bad news for you who settled Canaan, the Philistine country: "You're slated for destruction--no survivors!" [JC] [MSB]

Lilimax:
Zephniah 2:4 - For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Zephaniah 2: 5 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

Stop twisting what is written for your own misguided intentions abeg!

4 No one will be left in Gaza. Ashkelon will be destroyed. By noon, the people will be forced to leave Ashdod. Ekron[a] will be empty.
5 You Cretans[c] 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.
8 The Lord says, “I know what the people of Moab and Ammon did. They embarrassed my people. They took their land to make their own countries larger.
9 So, as surely as I am alive, Moab and the people of Ammon will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I promise those countries will be destroyed completely forever. Their land will be overgrown with weeds. It will be like the land covered with salt by the Dead Sea. The survivors of my people will take that land and everything left in it.”
10 This will happen to the people of Moab and Ammon because they were so proud and cruel and humiliated the people of the Lord All-Powerful.
11 They will be afraid of the Lord, because he will destroy their gods. Then everyone in all the faraway lands will worship the Lord.
12 People of Ethiopia, this even means you! The Lord’s sword will kill your people.
13 Then the Lord will turn north and punish Assyria. He will destroy Nineveh—that city will be like an empty, dry desert.
14 Only sheep and wild animals will live in those ruins. Owls and crows will sit on the columns that are left standing. Their calls will be heard coming through the windows. Crows will sit on the doorsteps. Black birds[d] will make their homes in those empty houses.
15 Nineveh is so proud now. It is such a happy city. The people think they are safe. They think Nineveh is the greatest place in the world, but it will be destroyed! It will be an empty place where only wild animals go to rest. People who pass by will whistle and shake their heads when they see how badly the city was destroyed. - Zephaniah 2 vs 4 - 15

The above passage obviously has nothing to do with the present-day if you pay close attention to the many details in it.

Kobojunkie:
Stop twisting what is written for your own misguided intentions abeg!

I read something written in the scripture and decided to share it and you're here saying misguided information. Dey play!

Lilimax:
I read something written in the scripture and decided to share it and you're here saying misguided information. Dey play!

You lifted verses out of context to support an idea which does not even begin to connect to the author's original contextual message is what. You took a fact, twisted it into a lie, and then claimed it has to do with the situation today... that is what you did.

According to what is written in the new testament Israel is CURSED:

Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Matthew 23:37-38 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Israelites openly said God should bring Jesus' innocent blood upon them and their children:

Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

So only true Christians are blessed on this planet today!