Old Testament · Prophets

Jeremiah chapter 47

The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the , before :This is what Yahweh says: “Look — , and they will become a . They will flood the land and everything in it, the city and everyone who lives there. People will cry out, every inhabitant of the land will wail —at the sound of the of his warhorses, at the rumble of his chariots, the roar of his wheels. Fathers will not turn back for their children — with dread —because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from every surviving ally. For Yahweh is destroying the Philistines, . has come upon Gaza. — the last of their valley. How long will you ?“Oh, ! How long until you rest? . Stop — be still.”How can it rest? Yahweh has . Against Ashkelon and against — that is where he has .