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1 The
LORD’s word that
came to Jeremiah
the prophet
concerning the
Philistines, before
Pharaoh struck
Gaza.
2 The
LORD says:
“Behold, waters
rise up out
of the north,
and will become
an overflowing
stream,
and will overflow
the land and all
that is therein,
the city and
those who dwell
therein.
The men will
cry,
and all the
inhabitants of
the land will wail.
3 At
the noise of
the stamping of
the hoofs of
his strong ones,
at the rushing
of his chariots,
at the rumbling
of his wheels,
the fathers don’t look
back for their
children
because their
hands are so
feeble,
4 because
of the day
that comes to
destroy all the
Philistines,
to cut off
from Tyre and
Sidon every helper
who remains;
for the LORD
will destroy the
Philistines,
the remnant of
the isle of
Caphtor.
5 Baldness
has come on Gaza;
Ashkelon is brought to nothing.
You remnant of
their valley,
how long will
you cut yourself?
6 “ ‘You
sword of the
LORD, how long
will it be
before you are
quiet?
Put yourself back into
your scabbard;
rest, and be
still.’
7 “How can you
be quiet,
since the LORD
has given you
a command?
Against Ashkelon, and
against the
seashore,
there he has
appointed it.”