1 Die woord van die HERE wat aangaande die Filistyne tot die profeet Jeremia gekom het voordat Farao Gasa verslaan het.
2 So sê die HERE: Kyk, die waters rys op uit die noorde en hulle sal 'n oorlopende stroom word; ja, hulle oorstroom die land en sy volheid, die stad en die wat daarin woon; en die mense sal skreeu, en al die inwoners van die land sal huil,
3 weens die stampgeluid van sy perde se pote, weens die geraas van sy waens, die gedreun van sy wiele. Die vaders kyk nie om na die kinders nie -- so slap is die hande --
4 weens die dag wat kom om al die Filistyne tot niet te maak, om van Tirus en Sidon die laaste een uit te roei wat kan help; want die HERE maak die Filistyne tot niet, die oorblyfsel van die eiland Kaftor.
5 'n Kaal plek het op Gasa gekom; Askelon is vernietig, die oorblyfsel van hulle dal. Hoe lank sal jy jou stukkend kerwe?
6 Wee, swaard van die HERE, hoe lank sal jy geen rus hê nie? Keer terug in jou skede, rus en wees stil.
7 Hoe sou dit rus hê, terwyl die HERE daaraan bevel gegee het teen Askelon en teen die seekus? Daar het Hy dit bestel.
1 The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines, before Pharaoh's attack on Gaza.
2 This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it; and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land will be crying out in pain.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;
4 Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.
5 The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.
6 O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.
7 How is it possible for it to be quiet, seeing that the Lord has given it orders? against Ashkelon and against the sea-land he has given it directions.