Jeremiah 47
1 The word of the LORD that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.
2 This is what the LORD says: “Look! Waters are rising from the north and becoming a flooding torrent. They will sweep over the land and everything in it, the city and those who live there. The people will cry out, and all who live in the land will wail.
3 At the sound of the pounding hooves of his stallions, the rumble of his chariots, the clatter of their wheels, fathers do not turn back to their children, so limp are their hands.
4 It is because the day is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to wipe out from Tyre and Sidon every surviving ally. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant from the island of Caphtor.
5 Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has fallen silent, along with the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?”
6 Ah, sword of the LORD! How long will you not rest? Return to your sheath; stop and be still!
7 How can it rest when the LORD has given it an order? Against Ashkelon and the seacoast—there he has appointed it.
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