Jeremiah 47
47
Judgment on the Philistines
1The word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:
2Thus says the Lord:
See, waters are rising out of the north
and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow the land and all that fills it,
the city and those who live in it.
People shall cry out,
and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
at the clatter of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
parents do not turn back for children,
so feeble are their hands,
4because of the day that is coming
to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
5Baldness has come upon Gaza,
Ashkelon is silenced.
O remnant of their power!#47.5 Gk: Heb their valley
How long will you gash yourselves?
6Ah, sword of the Lord!
How long until you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard,
rest and be still!
7How can it#47.7 Gk Vg: Heb you be quiet,
when the Lord has given it an order?
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore—
there he has appointed it.
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