Jeremiah Chapter 47
1 A Message from Yahveh to Jeremiah
About the Philistines Before Pharaoh Conquered Gaza
2 Yahveh says,
“A flood is swelling up from the north;
it will become a tsunami.
It’ll flood the land and everything in it,
the cities and those who live in them.
People will cry out;
everybody in the land will wail.
3 Because of the noise of stallions,
rushing chariots, wheels,
fathers won’t look back for their children;
they’ll be too overwhelmed
Jer 47:1-3
4 by what’s coming
to destroy the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
every ally that’s left.
Yahveh will destroy the Philistines,
the remnant along the coast of Crete.
5 Gaza will be bald;
Ashkelon will lie in ruins.
Remnant in the plain,
how long will you gash yourselves?
6 Sword of Yahveh,
how long before you’re still,
before you go back into your sheath?
7 But how can it be still
when Yahveh has ordered it to attack
against Ashkelon and the seacoast?”
Jer 47:4-7