# Strangers will make their homes in Ashdod
"Foreigners will take over Ashdod and live there"
# I will cut off the pride of the Philistines
Here "cut off" is an idiom that means to stop their pride. Alternate translation: "I will make the Philistines to be proud of themselves no longer" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])