And Hamath also shall border [a]thereby: Tyre also and Sidon, though they be [b]very wise.

For Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and gold as the mire of the streets.

Behold, the Lord will spoil her, and he will smite her [c]power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 9:2 That is, by Damascus: meaning, that Hamath or Antioch should be under the same rod and plague.
  2. Zechariah 9:2 He secretly showeth the cause of their destruction, because they deceived all others by their craft and subtlety, which they cloaked with this name of wisdom.
  3. Zechariah 9:4 Though they of Tyre think themselves invincible by reason of the sea that compass them round about, yet they shall not escape God’s judgments.

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