Yirmeyahu (Jer) 47

¹This word of Adonai came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the P’lishtim before Pharaoh attacked ‘Azah:

²“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

³at 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,

⁴because 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?’”

⁶Oh, sword of Adonai ,

how long till you can be quiet?

Put yourself back in your scabbard!

Stop! Be still!

⁷But how can you be still?

For Adonai has given it orders

against Ashkelon, against the seacoast;

he has assigned it its task there.