Jeremiah 47

PROPHECIES AGAINST THE PHILISTINES

47This is the word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah about the Philistinesⁿ before Pharaoh defeated Gaza.^{o 2}This is what the Lord says:

Look, water is rising from the north^p

and becoming an overflowing wadi.

It will overflow the land and everything in it,^q

the cities and their inhabitants.

The people will cry out,

and every inhabitant of the land will wail.

³At the sound of the stomping hooves of his stallions,^r

the rumbling of his chariots,

and the clatter of their wheels,^s

fathers will not turn back for their sons.

They will be utterly helpless^B

⁴on account of the day that is coming

to destroy all the Philistines,

to cut off from Tyre and Sidon

every remaining ally.^t

Indeed, the Lord is about to destroy the Philistines,

the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.^Cu

⁵Baldness^v is coming to Gaza;

Ashkelon will become silent.^w

Remnant of their valley,

how long will you gash yourself?

⁶Oh, sword of the Lord!^x

How long will you be restless?

Go back to your sheath;

be still; be silent!

⁷How can it^A rest

when the Lord has given it a command?^y

He has assigned it^z

against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.