2. Hamath also on its border,Tyre too, and Sidon, no matter how clever they be.
3. Tyre built itself a stronghold,and heaped up silver like dust,and gold like the mud of the streets.
4. But now the Lord will dispossess it,and cast its wealth into the sea,and it will be devoured by fire.
5. Ashkelon will see it and be afraid;Gaza too will be in great anguish;Ekron also, for its hope will wither.The king will disappear from Gaza,Ashkelon will not be inhabited,
6. and the illegitimate will rule in Ashdod.I will destroy the pride of the Philistines
7. and take from their mouths their bloody prey,their disgusting meat from between their teeth.They will become merely a remnant for our God,and will be like a clan in Judah;Ekron will be like the Jebusites.
8. I will encamp at my house,a garrison against invaders;No oppressor will overrun them again,for now I have seen their affliction.