2 and on Hamath too, which borders on it,and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skilful.
3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold;she has heaped up silver like dust,and gold like the dirt of the streets.
4 But the Lord will take away her possessionsand destroy her power on the sea,and she will be consumed by fire.
5 Ashkelon will see it and fear;Gaza will writhe in agony,and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.Gaza will lose her kingand Ashkelon will be deserted.
6 A mongrel people will occupy Ashdod,and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.
7 I will take the blood from their mouths,the forbidden food from between their teeth.Those who are left will belong to our Godand become a clan in Judah,and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.
8 But I will encamp at my templeto guard it against marauding forces.Never again will an oppressor overrun my people,for now I am keeping watch.