2. and on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
3. Tyre has built herself a rampartand heaped up silver like dust,and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
4. But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessionsand strike down her power on the sea,and she shall be devoured by fire.
5. Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.The king shall perish from Gaza;Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
6. a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod,and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.
7. I will take away its blood from its mouth,and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God;it shall be like a clan in Judah,and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
8. Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again march over them, for now I see with my own eyes.
9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you;righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey,on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraimand the war horse from Jerusalem;and the battle bow shall be cut off,and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea,and from the River to the ends of the earth.
11. As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
12. Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;today I declare that I will restore to you double.
13. For I have bent Judah as my bow;I have made Ephraim its arrow.I will stir up your sons, O Zion,against your sons, O Greece,and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
14. Then the Lord will appear over them,and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpetand will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.