1 An oracle: the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach,and Damascus is its destination,For the cities of Aram are the Lord’s,as are all the tribes of Israel.
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.