^{2 Ref} And also Hamath doth border thereon, Tyre and Zidon, for -- very wise!

^{3 Ref} And Tyre doth build a bulwark to herself, And doth heap silver as dust, And gold as mire of out-places.

^{4 Ref} Lo, the Lord doth dispossess her, And He hath smitten in the sea her force, And she with fire is consumed.

^{5 Ref} See doth Ashkelon and fear, Also Gaza, and she is exceedingly pained, Also Ekron -- for her expectation dried up, And perished hath a king from Gaza, And Ashkelon doth not remain,

^{6 Ref} And dwelt hath a foreigner in Ashdod, And I have cut off the excellency of the Philistines.

^{7 Ref} And turned aside his blood from his mouth, His abominations from between his teeth, And he hath remained, even he, to our God, And he hath been as a leader in Judah, And Ekron as a Jebusite.

^{8 Ref} And I have pitched for My house a camp, Because of the passer through, and of the returner, And pass not through against them again doth an exactor, For, now, I have seen with My eyes.