Prophecies against the Philistines

47 This is the word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah about the Philistines(A) before Pharaoh defeated Gaza.(B) This is what the Lord says:

Look, water is rising from the north(C)
and becoming an overflowing wadi.
It will overflow the land and everything in it,(D)
the cities and their inhabitants.
The people will cry out,
and every inhabitant of the land will wail.
At the sound of the stomping hooves of his stallions,(E)
the rumbling of his chariots,
and the clatter of their wheels,(F)
fathers will not turn back for their sons.
They will be utterly helpless[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 47:3 Lit Because of weakened hands

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