3. For Tsor built herself a tower, heaped up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.
4. See, יהוה shall dispossess her, and He shall destroy her power in the sea, and she shall be consumed by fire.
5. Ashqelon sees it and fears, Azzah too, writhing in anguish, and Eqron, for her expectation has dried up. And the sovereign shall perish from Azzah, and Ashqelon shall not be inhabited.
6. “And a half-breed shall settle in Ashdoḏ. So I shall cut off the pride of the Philistines,
7. and shall take away his blood from his mouth, and the abominations from between his teeth. And he shall remain, even he, to our Elohim, and he shall be like a leader in Yehuḏah, and Eqron like a Yeḇusite.
8. And I shall encamp around My house, against an army, against him who passes by and him who returns, so that no oppressor passes through them again, for now I have seen with My eyes.
9. “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Tsiyon! Shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim! See, your Sovereign is coming to you, He is righteous and endowed with deliverance, humble and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.