A Message about Philistia

47 This is the LORD’s message to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines of Gaza, before it was captured by the Egyptian army. 2 This is what the LORD says: and everyone in the land will wail. 3 Hear the clatter of stallions’ hooves without a backward glance at their helpless children. 4 “The time has come for the Philistines to be destroyed, those colonists from the island of Crete. 5 Gaza will be humiliated, its head shaved bald; how long will you cut yourselves in mourning? 6 “Now, O sword of the LORD, rest and be still. 7 “But how can it be still must be destroyed.”