Jeremiah 47

¹ The word of Yahweh that was addressed to Jeremiah against the Philistines before Pharaoh took Gaza by storm.

² Yahweh says this: See how the waters rise from the North, and become an overflowing torrent, overflowing the country and all it contains, the towns and their inhabitants! Men shout aloud, and there is wailing from all the inhabitants of the country,

³ at the thunder of his stallions’ hoofs, the crash of his chariots, the grinding of his wheels. Fathers forget about their children, their hands fall limp

⁴ because the day has come on which all the Philistines are to be destroyed, on which Tyre and Sidon are to be stripped to the last of their auxiliaries. Yes, Yahweh is destroying the Philistines, the remnant from the Isle of Caphtor.

⁵ A shaven scalp for Gaza! Silence over Ashkelon! Ashdod, all that is left of the Anakim, how long will you gash yourselves?[*a]

⁶ Oh, sword of Yahweh, how long before you rest? Back into your scabbard, stop, keep still!

⁷ Yet how can it rest when Yahweh has given it an order? Ashkelon and the sea coast, these are the targets assigned to it.