Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
This
is
the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about
the Philistines before Pharaoh struck
down
Gaza.
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against
the Philistines ,
before that
Pharaoh smote
Gaza.
This
is
what
the LORD says:
“See
how
the
waters are
rising
from
the north and becoming
an overflowing torrent.
They
will
overflow the land and
its
fullness
, the cities
and their
inhabitants.
The people
will
cry out
, and all who
dwell
in
the land will
wail
Thus
saith
the LORD ;
Behold,
waters rise
up
out
of
the north ,
and shall
be
an overflowing flood,
and
shall
overflow the land, and
all
that
is
therein;
the city,
and them
that
dwell
therein:
then
the men
shall
cry, and all the inhabitants
of
the
land shall
howl.
at the sound
of the galloping
hooves
of stallions
, the rumbling
of chariots, and the clatter
of their
wheels .
The fathers will
not turn
back for
their
sons;
their hands will
hang
limp.
At the noise
of the stamping
of the
hoofs
of
his
strong
horses
, at
the rushing
of his
chariots, and at
the rumbling
of his
wheels ,
the fathers shall
not look
back to
their children
for
feebleness
of
hands ;
For
the day has
come
to destroy
all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre
and Sidon
every remaining
ally.
Indeed,
the LORD is
about
to
destroy
the Philistines, the remnant from
the coasts
of Caphtor.
Because
of
the day that
cometh
to spoil
all the Philistines, and
to cut off from Tyrus
and Zidon
every helper
that
remaineth:
for
the LORD will
spoil
the Philistines, the remnant of
the country
of Caphtor.
The
people
of
Gaza will
shave
their
heads
in
mourning
; Ashkelon will
be
silenced.
O
remnant of their valley ,
how long will
you
gash
yourself
?
Baldness
is
come
upon
Gaza; Ashkelon is
cut
off
with
the
remnant of their valley :
how long wilt
thou
cut
thyself
?
‘Alas,
O sword of the LORD, how long until
you
rest
? Return
to
your
sheath;
cease
and be still !’
O thou
sword of the LORD, how long will
it
be
ere
thou
be
quiet
? put
up
thyself
into
thy
scabbard,
rest,
and be still .
How can it rest
when
the LORD has
commanded
it?
He
has
appointed
it against Ashkelon and the shore of
its
coastland
. ”
How can it be
quiet,
seeing
the LORD hath
given
it a
charge
against Ashkelon ,
and against
the sea
shore ?
there
hath
he
appointed
it
.
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