and Damascus is its resting place.
    For to Yahweh belongs the eye of humankind,^[a]
        and all the tribes of Israel,
² and also Hamath, which borders on it;
    Tyre and Sidon—yes, they are very wise!^[b]
3 Tyre has built a fortification for itself,^[c]
    and it heaped up silver like dust,
    and gold like the mud of the streets.
⁴ Look! The Lord will drive it^[d] out
    and will hurl its^[e] outer ramparts into the sea,
        and it^[f] will be consumed by fire.
⁵ Ashkelon will see and will be afraid,
    and Gaza will writhe exceedingly,
    and Ekron also, because its hope is ruined.^[g]
And the king from Gaza will perish,
    and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
⁶ A mongrel people^[h] will dwell in Ashdod,
    and I will cut down the pride of the Philistines.
⁷ I will remove its^[i] blood from its^[j] mouth,
    and its^[k] abominations from between its^[l] teeth.
And it^[m] too will be a remnant for our God;
    and it^[n] will be like a tribal chief^[o] in Judah,
    and Ekron will be like the Jebusite.
⁸ But I will encamp at my temple^[p] like a guard,
    against those crossing through and returning;
no oppressor will cross through them again,
    for now I have seen with my own eyes.
⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Look! Your king comes to you;
    he is righteous and victorious,
humble and riding on a donkey,
    and on a male donkey, the foal of^[q] a female donkey!
¹⁰ And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
    and the horse from Jerusalem;
the battle bow will be cut down,
    and he will announce peace to the nations.
His dominion will be from sea to sea,
    and from the River^[r] to the ends of the earth.
¹¹ As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant,
    I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.^[s]
12 Return to the fortress,
    O prisoners of hope;
today I am declaring that I will repay you double.
¹³ For I have bent Judah as my bow;
    I have set Ephraim as an arrow.
I will set in motion your sons, O Zion,
    against your sons, O Javan.^[t]
I will wield you like the sword of a warrior.
¹⁴ Then Yahweh will appear over them,
    and his arrow will go forth like lightning;
and my Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
    and he shall go out in the storm winds of the south.
¹⁵ Yahweh of hosts will defend them,
    and they will devour and subdue the slingstones;^[u]
they will drink, they will make noise^[v] like wine,
    and they will be full like the sacrificial basin,^[w]
    drenched like the corners of an altar.
¹⁶ And Yahweh their God will save them on that day,
    as the flock of his people;
for they are like the stones of a diadem,
    glittering on his land.
¹⁷ For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!
    Grain will make the young men thrive,
and new wine the young women.