47 The word of the Lord against the Philistines.

The words of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the Prophet, against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote [a]Gaza.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, waters rise up out of the [b]North, and shall be as a swelling flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein, and the cities with them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 47:1 Which was also called Gaza, a city of the Philistines.
  2. Jeremiah 47:2 He meaneth the army of the Chaldeans, Isa. 8:7, 8.

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