The Word of YAHWEH1 that came to Armiya2 the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Firaun struck Gaza.
2Thus says YAHWEH: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 3At 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 do not look back to their children for feebleness of hands; 4because 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. 5Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
6“‘You sword of YAHWEH, how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’
7“How can you be quiet, seeing YAHWEH has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there has he appointed it.”
- 47:1 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎
- 47:1 Armiya, or Jeremiah, from the Hebrew name Yirmeyah. ↩︎