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The burden of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach, with Damascus as its restingplace (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the LORD ),
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Ashkelon will see it and be afraid. Gaza too will writhe in greatpain; Also Ekron, for her expectation has beenconfounded. Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
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And I will remove their blood from their mouth And their detestablethings from between their teeth. Then they also will be a remnant for our God, And be like a clan in Judah, And Ekron like a Jebusite.
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But I will camp around My housebecause of an army, Because of him who passes by and returns; And nooppressor will passover them anymore, For now I have seen with My eyes.
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Rejoicegreatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
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I will cutoff the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem; And the bow of war will be cutoff. And He will speakpeace to the nations; And His dominion will be from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.
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For I will bendJudah as My bow, I will fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece; And I will make you like a warrior'ssword.
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Then the LORD will appearover them, And His arrow will goforth like lightning; And the LordGOD will blow the trumpet, And will march in the stormwinds of the south.
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The LORD of hosts will defend 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.