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class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.47.2" /> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/47-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>This is what the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> says:</p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem">Look, water is rising from the north<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.2.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and becoming an overflowing wadi.</p><p class="poem">It will overflow the land and everything in it,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.2.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">the cities and their inhabitants.</p><p class="poem">The people will cry out,</p><p class="poem">and every inhabitant of the land will wail.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.47.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/47-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>At the sound of the stomping hooves of his stallions,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">the rumbling of his chariots,</p><p class="poem">and the clatter of their wheels,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.3.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">fathers will not turn back for their sons.</p><p class="poem">They will be utterly helpless<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.47.3.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.47.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/47-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>on account of the day that is coming</p><p class="poem">to destroy all the Philistines,</p><p class="poem">to cut off from Tyre and Sidon</p><p class="poem">every remaining ally.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">Indeed, the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> is about to destroy the Philistines,</p><p class="poem">the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.47.4.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.4.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.47.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/47-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Baldness<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> is coming to Gaza;</p><p class="poem">Ashkelon will become silent.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.5.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">Remnant of their valley,</p><p class="poem">how long will you gash yourself?</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.47.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/47-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Oh, sword of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>!<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">How long will you be restless?</p><p class="poem">Go back to your sheath;</p><p class="poem">be still; be silent!</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.47.7" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/47-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>How can it<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.47.7.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> rest</p><p class="poem">when the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> has given it a command?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">He has assigned it<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.47.7.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.</p></blockquote><br /><section id="footnotes-Jeremiah.47" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.47.3.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.3">47:3</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">Because of weakened hands</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.47.4.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.4">47:4</a></span> Probably Crete</aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.47.7.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.7">47:7</a></span> LXX, Vg; MT reads <span class="italic">you</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Jeremiah.47" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.1">47:1</a></span> Jr 25:20</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.1">47:1</a></span> Am 1:6–7; Zph 2:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.2">47:2</a></span> Jr 1:13; 4:6,20; 6:1; 50:3,9,41; 51:48</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.2.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.2">47:2</a></span> Is 8:7–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.3">47:3</a></span> Jdg 5:22; Jr 8:16; 50:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.3.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.3">47:3</a></span> Nah 3:2–3</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.4">47:4</a></span> Jr 25:22; Jl 3:4; Am 1:8–10</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.4.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.4">47:4</a></span> Gn 10:14; Am 9:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.5">47:5</a></span> Jr 48:37</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.5.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.5">47:5</a></span> Jdg 1:18; Jr 25:20</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.6">47:6</a></span> Ezk 21:3–5</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.7">47:7</a></span> Ezk 14:17</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.47.7.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.47.7">47:7</a></span> Mc 6:9</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Jeremiah.47" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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