⁴ For the day has come
    to destroy all the Philistines
and to remove all survivors
    who could help Tyre^(A) and Sidon.^(B)
The Lord is about to destroy the Philistines,^(C)
    the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.^[a](D)

⁷ “Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites^[a]?”^(A)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines^(B) from Caphtor^[b](C)
    and the Arameans from Kir?^(D)

⁸ I will destroy the king^[a] of Ashdod^(A)
    and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon.
I will turn my hand^(B) against Ekron,
    till the last of the Philistines^(C) are dead,”^(D)
says the Sovereign Lord.^(E)

“For three sins of Tyre,^(F)
    even for four, I will not relent.^(G)
Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom,
    disregarding a treaty of brotherhood,^(H)
10 I will send fire on the walls of Tyre
    that will consume her fortresses.^(I)”

⁷ The days of punishment^(A) are coming,
    the days of reckoning^(B) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins^(C) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,^(D)
    the inspired person a maniac.^(E)

²⁹ Despite false visions concerning you
    and lying divinations^(A) about you,
it will be laid on the necks
    of the wicked who are to be slain,
whose day has come,
    whose time of punishment has reached its climax.^(B)

¹² The time has come!
    The day has arrived!
Let not the buyer^(A) rejoice
    nor the seller grieve,
    for my wrath is on the whole crowd.^(B)