Zechariah 9:1–8

¹An Oracle

The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach

and will rest upon Damascus.

For to the Lord belong the cities of Aram,

even as all the tribes of Israel;

²Hamath also, which borders thereon,

Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

³Tyre has built herself a rampart,

and heaped up silver like dust,

and gold like the dirt of the streets.

⁴But lo, the Lord will strip her of her possessions

and hurl her wealth into the sea,

and she shall be devoured by fire.

⁵Ashkelon 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;

⁶a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod;

and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.

⁷I 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.

⁸Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,

so that none shall march to and fro;

no oppressor shall again overrun them,

for now I see with my own eyes.