Jeremiah 47:1-7 NIV
A Message About the Philistines
1This is
The Word of The Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:
2This is
what The Lord says:
“See
how the waters are rising in the north;
they
will become an overflowing torrent.
They
will overflow the land and everything in it,
the
towns and those who live in them.
The
people will cry out;
all who
dwell in the land will wail
3at the
sound of the hooves of galloping steeds,
at the
noise of enemy chariots
and the
rumble of their wheels.
Parents
will not turn to help their children;
their
hands will hang limp.
4For the
day has come
to
destroy all the Philistines
and to
remove all survivors
who
could help Tyre and Sidon.
The Lord is about to destroy the Philistines,
5Gaza
will shave her head in mourning;
Ashkelon
will be silenced.
You
remnant on the plain,
how
long will you cut yourselves?
6“ ‘Alas,
Sword of The Lord,
how
long till you rest?
Return
to your sheath;
cease
and be still.’
7But how
can it rest
when The Lord has commanded it,
when HE
has ordered it
to
attack Ashkelon and the coast?”
This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of the Philistines
mostly; and also of the Tyrians and Sidonians as the title of the prophecy
represents, Jeremiah
47:1.
The instruments of this destruction, who are compared to
overflowing waters; which would cause great lamentation in the inhabitants of
the places where they should come, Jeremiah 47:2;
the noise of their horses and chariots would be so terrible, as to make parents
flee and leave their own children unprotected, Jeremiah 47:3;
at the same time Tyre and Sidon would fall into the hands of the enemy, and
have no helper, Jeremiah
47:4; particular places in Palestine are
mentioned, that should be destroyed, Jeremiah 47:5;
and all this owing to a commission The Lord gave to the sword, and which
therefore would continue to ravage, Jeremiah 47:6.
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