Jeremiah 47
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Chapter overview
Before Pharaoh attacks Gaza, Jeremiah describes waters rising from the north to overwhelm Philistia and its allies. The approaching disaster empties parents of strength, silences support from neighboring coasts, and becomes a sword that cannot yet rest.
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1The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza.
2“Look! Enemies are gathering in the north like water rising in a river. They will be like an overflowing stream. They will overwhelm the whole country and everything in it like a flood. They will overwhelm the cities and their inhabitants. People will cry out in alarm. Everyone living in the country will cry out in pain.
3Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses, the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels. They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear.
4For the time has come to destroy all the Philistines. The time has come to destroy all the help that remains for Tyre For I, the Lord, will destroy the Philistines, that remnant that came from the island of Crete.
5The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb. How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, you who remain of Philistia’s power?
6How long will you cry out, ‘Oh, sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you stop killing? Go back into your sheath! Stay there and rest!’
7But how can it rest when I, the Lord, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.
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