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Thus says the Lord:

Behold how the waters are rising from the north;
    they will become an everlasting torrent.
They shall flood the land and all that is in it,
    the towns and those who live in them.
People will cry out for help,
    and all the inhabitants of the land will wail.
On hearing the thundering hooves of the stallions,
    the noise of the chariots and their rumbling wheels,
fathers do not turn to help their children;
    their hands fall limp,
[a]because the day has come
    to destroy all the Philistines,
and to cut off Tyre and Sidon
    from any allies who could support them.
The Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 47:4 Caphtor: Crete, from which, it seems, the Philistines came. The cuts (v. 5) were signs of mourning.