Jeremiah 47
47
A Message About the Philistines
1The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah the prophet. This message is about the Philistine people. It came before the king of Egypt attacked the city of Gaza.
2This is what the Lord says:
“See, the enemy is gathering in the north like rising waters.
They will become like an overflowing stream.
They will cover the whole country like a flood.
They will cover the towns and the people living in them.
Everyone living in that country
will cry for help.
The people will cry painfully.
3They will hear the sound of the running horses.
They will hear the noisy chariots.
They will hear the rumbling chariot wheels.
Fathers will not help their children to safety.
Those fathers will be too weak to help.
4The time has come
to destroy all the Philistines.
It’s time to destroy all who are left alive
who could help Tyre and Sidon.
The Lord will soon destroy the Philistines.
He will destroy those left alive from the island of Crete.
5The people from Gaza will be sad and shave their heads.
The people from Ashkelon will be made silent.
Those left alive from the valley,
how long will you cut yourselves?# The people did these things to show their sadness.
6“You cry, ‘Sword of the Lord,
how long will you keep fighting?
Return to your holder.
Stop! Be still.’
7But how can the sword of the Lord rest?
The Lord gave it a command.
The Lord has ordered it
to attack the city of Ashkelon and the seacoast.”
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Jeremiah 47
47
Judgment on the Philistines
1#Jer 25:20; Ge 10:19The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh conquered Gaza.
2#Isa 8:7–8; 15:2–5Thus says the Lord:
See, waters rise up out of the north
and will be an overflowing flood,
and will overflow the land, and all that is in it,
the city and those who dwell in it.
Then the men shall cry out
and all the inhabitants of the land will howl
3#Jdg 5:22; Jer 8:16 at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,
at the rushing of his chariots,
and at the rumbling of his wheels.
The fathers will not look back to their children
because of the feebleness of their hands,
4#Am 9:7; Dt 2:23; Isa 20:6 because of the day that comes
to destroy all the Philistines
and to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
every helper that remains.
For the Lord will destroy the Philistines,
the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5#Jer 48:37; 25:20; 41:5 Baldness has come upon Gaza;
Ashkelon has been cut off.
O remnant of their valley,
how long shall you gash yourself?
6#Jer 12:12; Eze 21:3–5 O sword of the Lord,
how long shall you not be quiet?
Withdraw into your sheath,
rest, and be still.
7#Eze 14:17; Mic 6:9 How can it be quiet,
seeing the Lord has given it a charge
against Ashkelon and against the sea shore?
There He has appointed it.
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