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Hamath also, which borders on it,
Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
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Tyre has built itself a rampart,
and heaped up silver like dust,
and gold like the dirt of the streets.
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But now, the Lord will strip it of its possessions
and hurl its wealth into the sea,
and it shall be devoured by fire.
5
Ashkelon shall see it and be afraid;
Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;
Ekron also, because its hopes are withered.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
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a mongrel people shall settle in Ashdod,
and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.
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I will take away its blood from its mouth,
and its abominations from between its teeth;
it too shall be a remnant for our God;
it shall be like a clan in Judah,
and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
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Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,
so that no one shall march to and fro;
no oppressor shall again overrun them,
for now I have seen with my own eyes.