Jeremiah 29
1 Thus saith the Lord against the Philistines;
2 Behold, waters come up from the
north, and shall become a sweeping torrent, and it shall sweep away the land,
and its fulness; the city, and them that dwell in it: and men shall cry and
all that dwell in the land shall howl,
3 at the sound of his rushing, at
the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his
chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children
because of the weakness of their hands,
4 in the day that is coming to destroy
all the Philistines: and I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon, and all the
rest of their allies: for the Lord will destroy the remaining
inhabitants of the islands.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ascalon
is cast away, and the remnant of the Enakim.
6 How long wilt thou smite, O sword of
the Lord? how long will it be ere thou art quiet? return into thy sheath,
rest, and be removed.
7 How shall it be quiet, whereas the
Lord has given it a commission against Ascalon, and against the regions on the
sea-coast, to awake against the remaining countries!