Zechariah 9:1-10 ▼

1 The lifting up of the word of Jehovah in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus its gift: when to Jehovah the eye of man and all the tribes of Israel.

2 And also Hamath shall be the bound in it; Tyre and Zidon, for it was wise exceedingly.

3 And Tyre will build for herself a fortress, and she will heap up silver as the dust, and gold as the mud of the streets.

4 Behold, Jehovah will dispossess her, and he struck her strength in the sea; and she shall be devoured by fire.

5 Ashkelon shall see and shall fear; and Gaza, and she shall be greatly pained, and Ekron; for her confidence was ashamed; and the king perished from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

6 And a foreigner dwelt in Ashdod, and I cut off the pride of the rovers.

7 And I took away his bloods from his mouth, and his abominable things from between his teeth: and being left he also to our God, and he was a thousand in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

8 And I encamped at my house a garrison from him passing by, and from him turning back: and he driving shall no more pass through against them: for now I saw with mine eyes.

9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; make a loud noise, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king shall come to thee: just, and saving; he is humble and riding upon an ass, and upon an ass's colt the son of asses.

10 And I cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war was cut off: and he spake peace to the nations: and his dominion from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the end of the earth.