Jeremiah 47 YLT
Summary: This short oracle is directed against the Philistines, prompted by Pharaoh's earlier attack on Gaza. It pictures an invading force sweeping in from the north like overflowing floodwaters, engulfing the land and its cities and causing fathers to be too weak with fear to turn back for their children. Gaza and Ashkelon are singled out for destruction, their people shaving their heads and cutting themselves in mourning rites, and the oracle closes by asking how long the sword of the LORD, commissioned against the Philistine coast, will continue before it is finally sheathed.
1That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smiteth Gaza:
2`Thus said Jehovah: Lo, waters are coming up from the north, And have been for an overflowing stream, And they overflow the land and its fulness, The city, and the inhabitants in it, And men have cried out, And howled hath every inhabitant of the land.
3From the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his mighty ones, From the rushing of his chariot, the noise of his wheels, Fathers have not turned unto sons, From feebleness of hands,
4Because of the day that hath come to spoil all the Philistines, To cut off to Tyre and to Zidon every helping remnant. For Jehovah is spoiling the Philistines, The remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
5Come hath baldness unto Gaza, Cut off hath been Ashkelon, O remnant of their valley, Till when dost thou cut thyself?
6Ho, sword of Jehovah, till when art thou not quiet? Be removed unto thy sheath, rest and cease.
7How shall it be quiet, And Jehovah hath given a charge to it, Against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? There hath He appointed it!'
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