The King Is Coming!

² And Hamath also, which borders on it;
Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
³ For Tyre built herself a fortress,
And piled up silver like dust,
And gold like the mud of the streets.
⁴ Behold, the Lord will dispossess her
And throw her wealth into the sea;
And she will be consumed with fire.
⁵ Ashkelon will see it and be afraid.
Gaza too will writhe in great pain;
Also Ekron, because her hope has been ruined.
Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
⁶ And a people of mixed origins will live in Ashdod,
And I will eliminate the pride of the Philistines.
⁷ And I will remove their blood from their mouth
And their detestable things from between their teeth.
Then they also will be a remnant for our God,
And be like a clan in Judah,
And Ekron will be like a Jebusite.
⁸ But I will camp around My house because of an army,
Because of him who passes by and returns;
And no oppressor will pass over them anymore,
For now I have seen with My eyes.
⁹ Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
Shout in triumph, daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
He is righteous and endowed with salvation,
Humble, and mounted on a donkey,
Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
¹⁰ And I will eliminate the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
And the bow of war will be eliminated.
And He will speak peace to the nations;
And His dominion will be from sea to sea,
And from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.

¹¹ As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
¹² Return to the stronghold, you prisoners who have the hope;
This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you.
¹³ For I will bend Judah as My bow,
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece;
And I will make you like a warrior’s sword.
¹⁴ Then the Lord will appear over them,
And His arrow will go forth like lightning;
And the Lord God will blow the trumpet,
And march in the storm winds of the south.
¹⁵ The Lord of armies will protect them.
And they will devour and trample on the slingstones;
And they will drink and be boisterous as with wine;
And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin,
Drenched like the corners of the altar.
¹⁶ And the Lord their God will save them on that day
As the flock of His people;
For they are like the precious stones of a crown,
Sparkling on His land.
¹⁷ For how great will their loveliness and beauty be!
Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the virgins.

The Lord who makes the storm winds;
And He will give them showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each person.
² For the household idols speak deception,
And the diviners see an illusion
And tell deceitful dreams;
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wander like sheep,
They are wretched because there is no shepherd.
³ “My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
And I will punish the male goats;
For the Lord of armies has visited His flock, the house of Judah,
And will make them like His majestic horse in battle.
⁴ From them will come the cornerstone,
From them the tent peg,
From them the bow of battle,
From them every tyrant, all of them together.
⁵ And they will be like warriors,
Trampling down the enemy in the mud of the streets in battle;
And they will fight, because the Lord will be with them;
And the riders on horses will be put to shame.
⁶ And I will strengthen the house of Judah,
And I will save the house of Joseph,
And I will bring them back,
Because I have had compassion on them;
And they will be as though I had not rejected them,
For I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
⁷ Ephraim will be like a warrior,
And their heart will be joyful as if from wine;
Indeed, their children will see it and be joyful,
Their heart will rejoice in the Lord.
⁸ I will whistle for them and gather them together,
For I have redeemed them;
And they will be as numerous as they were before.
⁹ When I scatter them among the peoples,
They will remember Me in distant countries,
And they with their children will live and come back.
¹⁰ I will bring them back from the land of Egypt
And gather them from Assyria;
And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon
Until no room can be found for them.
¹¹ And they will pass through the sea of distress
And He will strike the waves in the sea,
So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
And the pride of Assyria will be brought down,
And the scepter of Egypt will depart.
¹² And I will strengthen them in the Lord,
And in His name they will walk,” declares the Lord.