CHAPTER 47
This is the word
of the LORD
that
came
to
Jeremiah
the prophet
about
the Philistines
before
Pharaoh
conquered
Gaza.
This is what
the LORD
says:
“See how
the waters
are rising
from the north
and becoming
an overflowing
torrent.
They will overflow
the land
and its fullness,
the cities
and their inhabitants.
The people
will cry out,
and all
who dwell
in the land
will wail
at the sound
of the galloping
hooves
of stallions,
the rumbling
of chariots,
and the clatter
of their wheels.
The fathers
will not
turn back
for
their sons;
their hands
will hang limp.
For
the day
has come
to destroy
all
the Philistines,
to cut off
from Tyre
and Sidon
every
remaining
ally.
Indeed,
the LORD
is about to destroy
the Philistines,
the remnant
from the coasts
of Caphtor.
The people of Gaza
will shave their heads in mourning;
Ashkelon
will be silenced.
O remnant
of their valley,
how long
will you gash yourself?
How
can it rest
when the LORD
has commanded it?
He has appointed it
against
Ashkelon
and the shore
of its coastland.”