2. as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, and Tyre and Sidon, though they consider themselves to be very wise.
3. Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!
4. Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea – she will be consumed by fire.
5. Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Gaza will be in great anguish, as will Ekron, for her hope will have been dried up. Gaza will lose her king, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.
6. A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.