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

Ashkelon shall see it, and fear, and Gaza also shall be very sorrowful, and Ekron: for her countenance shall be ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

And the [b]stranger shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Zechariah 9:6 Meaning, that all should be destroyed, save a very few, that should remain as strangers.

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