The Bible : English > The book of Jeremiah > Chapter 47

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1 The word of The LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.

2 Thus says The LORD: 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 those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

3 At 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 don`t look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

4 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for The LORD will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

5 Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

6 You sword of The LORD, how long will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.

7 How can you be quiet, seeing The LORD has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there has he appointed it.