Jeremias 47

1 Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

2 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.

3 At 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 for their children

because their hands are so feeble,

4 because 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.

5 Baldness has come on Gaza;

Ashkelon is brought to nothing.

You remnant of their valley,

how long will you cut yourself?

6 "‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet?

Put yourself back into your scabbard;

rest, and be still.’

7 "How can you be quiet,

since Yahweh has given you a command?

Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore,

there he has appointed it."

He Whakawātanga ki ngā Pirihitini

1 Ko te kupu a Ihowā i puta mai ki a Heremaia poropiti mō ngā Pirihitini i te mea kāhore anō a Parao i patu noa i Kaha:

2 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"Nanā, te puta mai nei ngā wai i te raki,

ka meinga hei waipuke e ngawhā ana,

ā, ka pōkia te whenua me ōna mea katoa,

te pā me ngā tāngata e noho ana i roto.

Ā, ka hāmama ngā tāngata,

ka auē hoki ngā tāngata katoa o te whenua.

3 Hei te haruru o te takahi o ngā pāua o ōna hōiho kaha,

hei te rorohū o ōna hāriata, hei te ngaehe o ōna wīra.

Kore iho ngā mātua e tahuri ki muri ki ā rātou tamariki

i te ngoikore hoki o ngā ringa.

4 Nā, mō te rā e haere mai nei,

e pāhuatia ai ngā Pirihitini katoa,

e hātepea atu ai i Tāira,

i Hairona ngā kaiāwhina katoa e toe nei.

Ka pāhuatia hoki e Ihowā ngā Pirihitini,

ngā mōrehu o te motu, o Kapatoro.

5 Kua tae te pākira ki runga ki Kaha;

kua whakamōtītia a Ahakerono

me te toenga anō o tō rātou awaawa;

kia pēhea te roa o tāu haehae i a koe?

6 " ‘E te hoari a Ihowā!

Kia pēhea te roa ka āta takoto ai koe?

Hoki atu ki roto ki tōu kōpaki;

okioki, kāti hoki tāu!’

7 Me pēhea koe e āta takoto ai,

kua hoatu nei hoki e Ihowā he whakahau ki a koe?

He hē mō Ahakerono, mō te tahatika hoki o te moana –

kua whakaritea e ia ki reira."