The burden
of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach,
and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the
eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel,
shall be toward the Lord.
02 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus,
and Zidon, though it be very wise.
03 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and
heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as
the mire of the streets.
04 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he
will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be
devoured with fire.
05 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also
shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron;
for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the
king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall
not be inhabited.
06 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I
will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
07 And I will take away his blood out of his
mouth, and his abominations from between his
teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be
for our God, and he shall be as a governor in
Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
08 And I will encamp about mine house because of
the army, because of him that passeth by, and
because of him that returneth: and no oppressor
shall pass through them any more: for now have I
seen with mine eyes.
09 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh
unto thee: he is just, and having salvation;
lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt
the foal of an ass.
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10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow
shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto
the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea
even to sea, and from the river even to the ends
of the earth.
11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant
I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit
wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of
hope: even to day do I declare that I will render
double unto thee;
13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow
with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion,
against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the
sword of a mighty man.
14 And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his
arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the
Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go
with whirlwinds of the south.
15 The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they
shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and
they shall drink, and make a noise as through
wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as
the corners of the altar.
16 And the Lord their God shall save them in that
day as the flock of his people: for they shall be
as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign
upon his land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great
is his beauty! corn shall make the young men
cheerful, and new wine the maids.
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