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At the sound of the galloping hooves of his horses,[a]
    at the rumbling of his chariots,
        the clatter of his wheels,
fathers won’t turn back for their[b] children
    because their hands are weak,
for the day is coming to destroy all the Philistines,
    to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
        every helper who remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    the remnant of the coastlands of Caphtor.[c]
Baldness[d] is coming to Gaza.
    Ashkelon is silenced.
Remnant of their valley,
    how long will you gash yourself?[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 47:3 Lit. his strong ones
  2. Jeremiah 47:3 The Heb. lacks their
  3. Jeremiah 47:4 I.e. Crete and the Aegean islands from which the Philistines came
  4. Jeremiah 47:5 I.e. the head was shaved as a rite of mourning
  5. Jeremiah 47:5 I.e. people made cuts on their bodies as an act of mourning