Final Prophets: Zechariah 9:1-8

As part of the lead up to Advent readings, we're reading the final prophets before God speaking to Israel appears to have gone dark for several hundred years. We are now in the next to the last prophet before Jesus' birth, Zechariah. The Book of Zechariah was written between 520 and 480 BC. 

Check out the video below. Today's readings are part of the video section from mark 5:52 to about 6:13.

Bible Project: Zechariah

Judgment of Zion’s Enemies
9:1 A pronouncement:

The word of the Lord
is against the land of Hadrach,
and Damascus is its resting place—
for the eyes of humanity
and all the tribes of Israel
are on the Lord [Or eyes of the Lord are on mankind—]—
2 
and also against Hamath, which borders it,
as well as Tyre and Sidon,
though they are very shrewd.
3 
Tyre has built herself a fortress;
she has heaped up silver like dust
and gold like the dirt of the streets.
4 
Listen! The Lord will impoverish her
and cast her wealth into the sea;
she herself will be consumed by fire.
5 
Ashkelon will see it and be afraid;
Gaza too, and will writhe in great pain,
as will Ekron, for her hope will fail.
There will cease to be a king in Gaza,
and Ashkelon will become uninhabited.
6 
A mongrel people will live in Ashdod,
and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
7 
I will remove the blood from their mouths
and the abhorrent things
from between their teeth.
Then they too will become a remnant for our God;
they will become like a clan in Judah
and Ekron like the Jebusites.
8 
I will encamp at my house as a guard,
against those who march back and forth,
and no oppressor will march against them again,
for now I have seen with my own eyes.

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