⁵Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;
Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;
Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;
⁶a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod;
and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.
⁷I 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.
⁸Then I will encamp at my house as a guard,
so that none shall march to and fro;
no oppressor shall again overrun them,
for now I see with my own eyes.

The Future King  Zech 9:9-10

⁹Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Lo, your king comes to you;
triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on an ass,
on a colt the foal of an ass.
¹⁰I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and the war horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow shall be cut off,
and he shall command peace to the nations;
his dominion shall be from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.

The restoration of God's people.  Zch.9.11-17

¹¹As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.
¹²Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
today I declare that I will restore to you double.
¹³For I have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will brandish your sons, O Zion,
over your sons, O Greece,
and wield you like a warrior's sword.

¹⁴Then Yahweh will appear over them,
and his arrow go forth like lightning;
Yahweh GOD will sound the trumpet,
and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
¹⁵Yahweh of hosts will protect them,
and they shall devour and tread down the slingers;
and they shall drink their blood like wine,
and be full like a bowl,
drenched like the corners of the altar.

¹⁶On that day Yahweh their God will save them
for they are the flock of his people;
for like the jewels of a crown
they shall shine on his land.
¹⁷Yea, how good and how fair it shall be!
Grain shall make the young men flourish,
and new wine the maidens.

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