5. Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Gaza will be in great anguish, as will Ekron, for her hope will have been dried up. Gaza will lose her king, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.
6. A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.
7. I will take away their abominable religious practices; then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.
8. Then I will surround my temple to protect it like a guard from anyone crossing back and forth; so no one will cross over against them anymore as an oppressor, for now I myself have seen it.
9. Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!Look! Your king is coming to you:he is legitimate and victorious,humble and riding on a donkey – on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.
10. I will remove the chariot from Ephraimand the warhorse from Jerusalem,and the battle bow will be removed.Then he will announce peace to the nations.His dominion will be from sea to seaand from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.