Jeremiah 47:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

47 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.

² Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of the north, and they shall be as an overflowing torrent, and they shall cover the land, and all that is therein, the city and the inhabitants thereof: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,

³ At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands,