Jeremiah 47 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 This is the message from the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza.
1 Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.
2 This is what the Lord says: Look at the waters rising from the north! They will become an overflowing river that sweeps across the country and everything in it, flooding the towns and everyone's homes. The people will cry out for help; everyone who lives in the country will weep,
2 Yahweh says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will wail.
3 as they hear the sound of stallions charging, the rattling of chariots and the rumble of their wheels. Fathers won't go back to help their sons—they have no strength because they're terrified.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back for their children because their hands are so feeble,
4 The day has arrived when all the Philistines will be destroyed, when Tyre and Sidon will have no more allies to help them. The Lord is going to destroy the Philistines, those who are left from the island of Crete.
4 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
5 The people of Gaza will shave their heads; the town of Ashkelon lies in ruins. You who are left on the coastal plain, how long will you go on cutting yourself?
5 Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing. You remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself?
6 Oh sword of the Lord, when are you going to stop killing? Go back in your sheath. Stop killing and stay there!
6 “‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’
7 But how can the sword stop killing when the Lord has given it orders to attack Ashkelon and its coastlands?
7 “How can you be quiet, since Yahweh has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has appointed it.”
Cross references (7)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 25:20; Genesis 10:19; Exodus 25:15–17; 1 Kings 4:24; Zechariah 9:5–7
- 2 Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 8:16; Jeremiah 46:20; Isaiah 8:7–8; Isaiah 15:2–5
- 3 Jeremiah 8:16; Judges 5:22; Deuteronomy 28:54–55; Job 39:19–25; Ezekiel 26:10–11
- 4 Amos 9:7; Isaiah 20:6; Deuteronomy 2:23; Hosea 9:7; Amos 1:8–10
- 5 Jeremiah 48:37; Jeremiah 25:20; Micah 1:16; Jeremiah 41:5; Mark 5:5
- 6 Ezekiel 21:3–5; Jeremiah 12:12; John 18:11; Ezekiel 21:30; Isaiah 10:15
- 7 Ezekiel 14:17; Micah 6:9; Isaiah 10:6; Amos 3:6; Zephaniah 2:6–7
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