A Message About the Philistines
1 This is the word of theLordthat came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:
2 This is what theLordsays:
“See how the waters are rising in the north;
they will become an overflowing torrent.
They will overflow the land and everything in it,
the towns and those who live in them.
The people will cry out;
all who dwell in the land will wail
3 at the sound of the hooves of galloping steeds,
at the noise of enemy chariots
and the rumble of their wheels.
Parents will not turn to help their children;
their hands will hang limp.
4 For the day has come
to destroy all the Philistines
and to remove all survivors
who could help Tyre and Sidon.
TheLordis about to destroy the Philistines,
# the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.
5 Gaza will shave her head in mourning;
Ashkelon will be silenced.
You remnant on the plain,
how long will you cut yourselves?
6 “ ‘Alas, sword of theLord,
how long till you rest?
Return to your sheath;
cease and be still.’
7 But how can it rest
when theLordhas commanded it,
when he has ordered it
to attack Ashkelon and the coast?”
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