¹⁴ I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.

⁸ Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.

⁹ Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

⁴⁵ Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.

¹³ Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

²⁰ And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;

²¹ From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

²² In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

²³ So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.

⁷ Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

³ He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.