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Jeremiah 47:2

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Yahweh 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.

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Jeremiah 47:2 in other translations

Thus saith Jehovah: 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 them that dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

Jeremiah 47:2 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 47:2 in context

  1. 1Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.
  2. 2Yahweh 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.
  3. 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 to their children
    for feebleness of hands;
  4. 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.