The word of the Lord that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet against the Pelishtim, before Par῾o smote ῾Azza.

Thus says the Lord; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all its fullness; the city, and those who dwell in it; then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, 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;

because of the day that comes to spoil all the Pelishtim, and to cut off from Żor and Żidon every helper that remains: for the Lord will spoil the Pelishtim, the remnant of the country of Kaftor.

Baldness is come upon ῾Azza; Ashqelon is cut off; O remnant of their valley, how long wilt thou gash thyself?

O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord has given it a charge against Ashqelon, and against the sea shore? there he has appointed it.