2. as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, and Tyre and Sidon, though they consider themselves to be very wise.
3. Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
4. Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea – she will be consumed by fire.
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.