Jeremiah 47
47
What the LORD says about the Philistines
1Before 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:#Is 14.29-31; Ez 25.15-17; Jl 3.4-8; Am 1.6-8; Zep 2.4-7; Zec 9.5-7.
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 abandon
their own children.
4You refugees from Crete,#47.4 Crete: Hebrew “Caphtor”, another name for Crete, the original homeland of the ancestor 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.
5-6The Anakim who survive#47.5,6 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.
You 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 coast?
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Jeremiah 47
47
A Message Concerning the Philistines
1The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before#Literally “at not yet” Pharaoh attacked Gaza. 2Thus says Yahweh:
“Look, waters are rising from the north,
and they will become as a raging torrent,
and they will overflow the land,
and that which fills it,
the city and those who live in it.
And the people will cry out,
and every inhabitant of the land will wail,
3from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
from the clattering of his chariots,#Hebrew “chariot”
the noise of their wheels.
Fathers do not turn to their children
because of the slackness of their hands.
4Because of the day that is coming
to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon
every survivor who could help,
for Yahweh is destroying the Philistines,
the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
5Baldness has come upon Gaza,
Ashkelon is destroyed.
O remnant of their valley,
how long#Literally “until when” will you cut yourself with a blade?
6Ah, sword of Yahweh,
how long#Literally “until when” will you not be quiet?
Gather to your sheath,
keep quiet and stand still.
7How can you be quiet
when Yahweh has given an order to it?
Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea,
there he has appointed it.”
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