1The word of Yehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza. 2Thus says Yehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell in it; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 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 do not look back to their children for feebleness of hands; 4because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains: for Yehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. 5Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? 6O sword of Yehovah, how long will it be before you are quiet? put yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still. 7How can you be quiet, seeing Yehovah has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has appointed it.