Ch 47 / 52~1 min
YirmeyahuChapter 47
Waters Rise, But His Word Holds
The Philistines' judgement foreshadow Yeshua's ultimate reckoning with every people that has opposed His own — 'how long will you cut yourself?' ends in complete defeat.
- Oracle Against the Philistines
The Philistines face destruction. Nations that opposed Elohim's people face their own reckoning.
- 1YHWH’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.
- 2YHWH says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will 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 don’t look back for their children because their hands are so feeble,
- 4because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for YHWH will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
- 5Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing. You remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself?
- 6‘You sword of YHWH, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’
- 7How can you be quiet, since YHWH has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has appointed it.”