1The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines ⌞before⌟ Pharaoh attacked Gaza.
2Thus says Yahweh: “Look, waters are rising from the north, and they will become as a raging torrent, and they will overflow the land, and that which fills it, the city and those who live in it. And the people will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail,
3from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, from the clattering of his chariots, the noise of their wheels. Fathers do not turn to their children because of the slackness of their hands.
4Because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor who could help, for Yahweh is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
5Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is destroyed. O remnant of their valley, ⌞how long⌟ will you cut yourself with a blade?
6Ah, sword of Yahweh, ⌞how long⌟ will you not be quiet? Gather to your sheath, keep quiet and stand still.
7How can you be quiet when Yahweh has given an order to it? Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea, there he has appointed it.”