1 An oracle of the word of the Lord concerning the land of Hadrach, with its focus on Damascus:The eyes of all humanity, especially of the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord,
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.