Jeremiah 47
47
Prophecies against the Philistines
1This is the word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah about the Philistines#Jr 25:20 before Pharaoh defeated Gaza.#Am 1:6–7; Zph 2:4 2This is what the Lord says:
Look, water is rising from the north#Jr 1:13; 4:6,20; 6:1; 50:3,9,41; 51:48
and becoming an overflowing wadi.
It will overflow the land and everything in it,#Is 8:7–8
the cities and their inhabitants.
The people will cry out,
and every inhabitant of the land will wail.
3At the sound of the stomping hooves of his stallions,#Jdg 5:22; Jr 8:16; 50:11
the rumbling of his chariots,
and the clatter of their wheels,#Nah 3:2–3
fathers will not turn back for their sons.
They will be utterly helpless#47:3 Lit Because of weakened hands
4on account of the day that is coming
to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
every remaining ally.#Jr 25:22; Jl 3:4; Am 1:8–10
Indeed, the Lord is about to destroy the Philistines,
the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.#47:4 Probably Crete#Gn 10:14; Am 9:7
5Baldness#Jr 48:37 is coming to Gaza;
Ashkelon will become silent.#Jdg 1:18; Jr 25:20
Remnant of their valley,
how long will you gash yourself?
6Oh, sword of the Lord!#Ezk 21:3–5
How long will you be restless?
Go back to your sheath;
be still; be silent!
7How can it#47:7 LXX, Vg; MT reads you rest
when the Lord has given it a command?#Ezk 14:17
He has assigned it#Mc 6:9
against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.
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Jeremiah 47
47
What the Lord Says about the Philistines
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Is 14.29-31; Ez 25.15-17; Jl 3.4-8; Am 1.6-8; Zep 2.4-7; Zec 9.5-7. Before the king of Egypt attacked the town of Gaza,#47.1 attacked the town of Gaza: One of the major Philistine towns; nothing is known about this attack. the Lord told me to say to the Philistines:
2I, the Lord, tell you
that your land will be flooded
with an army from the north.
It will destroy your towns
and sweep you away,
moaning and screaming.
3When you hear the thunder
of horses and chariots,
your courage will vanish,
and parents will even abandon
their own children.
4You refugees from Crete,#47.4 Crete: Hebrew “Caphtor,” another name for Crete, the original homeland of the ancestors of the Philistines.
your time has now come,
and I will destroy you.
None of you will be left
to help the cities
of Tyre and Sidon.
5The Anakim who survive#47.5 Anakim who survive: One ancient translation; Hebrew “people in the valley who survive.” The Anakim may have been a group of very large people that lived in Palestine before the Israelites (see Numbers 13.33; Deuteronomy 2.10,11, 20,21; and Joshua 11.21,22).
in Gaza and Ashkelon
will mourn for you
by shaving their heads
and sitting in silence.
6You ask how long will I continue
to attack you with my sword,
then you tell me to put it away
and leave you alone.
7But how can my sword rest,
when I have commanded it
to attack Ashkelon
and the seacoast?
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