Zechariah 9:1-8

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Judgment on Israel's Enemies

9 The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach
    and ^(A)Damascus is its resting place.
For the Lord has an eye on mankind
    and on all the tribes of Israel,^[a]
²^(B)and on Hamath also, which borders on it,
    ^(C)Tyre and ^(D)Sidon, though ^(E)they are very wise.
³Tyre has built herself ^(F)a rampart
    and ^(G)heaped up silver like dust,
    and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
⁴But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions
    and strike down ^(H)her power on the sea,
    and ^(I)she shall be devoured by fire.

⁵^(J)Ashkelon 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;
⁶^(K)a mixed people^[b] shall dwell in Ashdod,
    and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.
⁷I will take away ^(L)its blood from its mouth,
    and ^(M)its abominations from between its teeth;
^(N)it too shall be a remnant for our God;
    it shall be like ^(O)a clan in Judah,
    and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
⁸Then ^(P)I will encamp at my house as a guard,
    ^(Q)so that none shall march to and fro;
^(R)no oppressor shall again march over them,
    ^(S)for now I see with my own eyes.

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Footnotes

Zechariah 9:1 Or For the eye of mankind, especially of all the tribes of Israel, is toward the Lord
Zechariah 9:6 Or a foreign people; Hebrew a bastard