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Complete Jewish Bible

Jeremiah 47

1 This word of Adonai came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the P'lishtim before Pharaoh attacked ‘Azah: "Here is what Adonai says:

‘Water is rising out of the north;
it will become a flooding stream,
flooding the land and all that is in it,
the city and its inhabitants.
The people are crying out in alarm,
everyone in the land is weeping
3 at the thunderous pound of his stallions' hoofs,
at his rattling chariots' rumbling wheels.
Fathers fail to turn back for their children;
instead, their hands hang limp,
4 because the day has come
for destroying all the P'lishtim,
for cutting off from Tzor and Tzidon
the last of their allies;
for Adonai is destroying the P'lishtim,
the remnant from the island of Kaftor.
5 ‘Azah is shaved bald,
Ashkelon reduced to silence.
Those of you who remain in their valley,
how long will you go on gashing yourselves?'"

6 Oh, sword of Adonai,
how long till you can be quiet?
Put yourself back in your scabbard!
Stop! Be still!
7 But how can you be still?
For Adonai has given it orders
against Ashkelon, against the seacoast;
he has assigned it its task there.

 
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