# Jeremiah 47 (New King James Version)
Judgment on Philistia

##### Chapter 47
###### 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza.

###### 2 Thus says the Lord:
"Behold, waters rise out of the north,  
And shall be an overflowing flood;  
They shall overflow the land and all that is in it,  
The city and those who dwell within;  
Then the men shall cry,  
And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.  

###### 3 At the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses,  
At the rushing of his chariots,  
_At_ the rumbling of his wheels,  
The fathers will not look back for _their_ children,  
Lacking courage,  

###### 4 Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines,  
To cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains;  
For the Lord shall plunder the Philistines,  
The remnant of the country of Caphtor.  

###### 5 Baldness has come upon Gaza,  
Ashkelon is cut off  
_With_ the remnant of their valley.  
How long will you cut yourself?

###### 6 "O you sword of the Lord,  
How long until you are quiet?  
Put yourself up into your scabbard,  
Rest and be still!  

###### 7 How can it be quiet,  
Seeing the Lord has given it a charge  
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore?  
There He has appointed it."