A Message Concerning the Philistines

47 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before[fn] Pharaoh attacked Gaza.

• 2 Thus says Yahweh:“Look, waters are rising from the north,
  • and they will become as a raging torrent,
• and they will overflow the land,
  • and that which fills it,
  • the city and those who live in it.
• And the people will cry out,
  • and every inhabitant of the land will wail,
  • 3  from the clattering of his chariots,[fn]
  • the noise of their wheels.
• Fathers do not turn to their children
  • because of the slackness of their hands.
  • 4  to destroy all the Philistines,
• to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon
  • every survivor who could help,
• for Yahweh is destroying the Philistines,
  • the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
  • 5  Ashkelon is destroyed.
• O remnant of their valley,
  • [fn] will you cut yourself with a blade?
  • 6 [fn] will you not be quiet?
• Gather to your sheath,
  • keep quiet and stand still.
  • 7  when Yahweh has given an order to it?
• Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea,
  • there he has appointed it.”