Jeremiah 47 (NET)

Jeremiah 47:1¹This was the Lord’ s message to the prophet Jeremiah about the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 25:20Gen 10:191 Kgs 4:24Exod 25:15-17Zech 9:5-7Amos 1:6-8Zeph 2:4-7

Jeremiah 47:2²“Look! Enemies are gathering in the north like water rising in a river. They will be like an overflowing stream. They will overwhelm the whole country and everything in it like a flood. They will overwhelm the cities and their inhabitants. People will cry out in alarm. Everyone living in the country will cry out in pain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 15:2-5Isa 8:7-8Jer 1:14Jer 46:20Jer 8:161 Cor 10:261 Cor 10:28Amos 9:5-6Dan 11:22Isa 14:31

Jeremiah 47:3³Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses, the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels. They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 8:16Judg 5:22Deut 28:54-55Ezek 26:10-11Jer 46:9Job 39:19-25Lam 4:3-4Nah 2:4Nah 3:2-3

Jeremiah 47:4⁴For the time has come to destroy all the Philistines. The time has come to destroy all the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon. For I, the Lord, will destroy the Philistines, that remnant that came from the island of Crete.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:7Deut 2:23Isa 20:6Amos 1:8-10Ezek 21:25Ezek 21:29Ezek 7:12Ezek 7:5-7Hos 9:7Jer 46:10

Jeremiah 47:5⁵The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb. How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, you who remain of Philistia’s power?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 48:37Jer 25:20Jer 41:5Mic 1:161 Kgs 18:28Amos 1:6-8Deut 14:1Ezek 25:16Ezek 7:18Isa 15:2

Jeremiah 47:6⁶How long will you cry out, ‘Oh, sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you stop killing? Go back into your sheath; stay there and rest!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 21:3-5Jer 12:12Ezek 21:30John 18:111 Chr 21:272 Sam 2:26Deut 32:41-42Ezek 14:17Isa 10:15Isa 10:5

Jeremiah 47:7⁷But how can it rest when I, the Lord, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 14:17Mic 6:9Isa 10:61 Sam 15:3Amos 3:6Ezek 25:16Isa 13:3Isa 37:26Isa 45:1-3Isa 46:10-11