9:1  The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of
Hadrach, and Damascus [shall be] the rest thereof: when the
eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, [shall be] toward
the LORD.
 9:2  And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon,
though it be very wise.
 9:3  And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up
silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
 9:4  Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her
power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
 9:5  Ashkelon shall see [it], and fear; Gaza also [shall see
it], and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation
shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and
Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
 9:6  And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off
the pride of the Philistines.
 9:7  And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his
abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth,
even he, [shall be] for our God, and he shall be as a governor
in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
 9:8  And I will encamp about mine house because of the army,
because of him that passeth by, and because of him that
returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more:
for now have I seen with mine eyes.
 9:9  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he [is] just, and
having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a
colt the foal of an ass.
 9:10  And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the
horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and
he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion [shall
be] from sea [even] to sea, and from the river [even] to the
ends of the earth.
 9:11  As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have
sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.
 9:12  Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even
to day do I declare [that] I will render double unto thee;
 9:13  When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with
Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O
Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
 9:14  And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow
shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow
the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
 9:15  The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall
devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink,
[and] make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled
like bowls, [and] as the corners of the altar.
 9:16  And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as
the flock of his people: for they [shall be as] the stones of a
crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
 9:17  For how great [is] his goodness, and how great [is] his
beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine
the maids.