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Jeremiah 47

¹The word of YHWH that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. ²Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and them that dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. ³At 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 look not back to their children for feebleness of hands; ⁴because of the day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remaineth: for YHWH will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. ⁵Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt you cut thyself? ⁶O you sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere you be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still. ⁷How canst you be quiet, seeing YHWH hath given thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there hath he appointed it.

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