The Burden against Israel’s Enemies
1A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's,+ 2As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.+ 3And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.+ 4See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.+ 5Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.+ 6And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.+ 7And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.+ 8And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.+Zion’s Coming King
Matthew 21:1–11; Mark 11:1–11; Luke 19:28–40; John 12:12–19
9Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.+ 10And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.+ 11And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.+ 12And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;+ 13For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.+