Woe to the inhabitants of (A)the seacoast,
The nation of the Cherethites!
The word of the Lord is against you,
O (B)Canaan, land of the Philistines:
“I will destroy you;
So there shall be no inhabitant.”

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16 therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)“I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the (B)Cherethites (C)and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

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How can [a]it be quiet,
Seeing the Lord has (A)given it a charge
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore?
There He has (B)appointed it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 47:7 Lit. you

Authority of the Prophet’s Message

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:

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(A)from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the (B)five lords of the Philistines—the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also (C)the Avites;

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12 (A)And they sought to lay hands on Him, but feared the multitude, for they knew He had spoken the parable against them. So they left Him and went away.

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Yet surely (A)My words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers?

“So they returned and said:

(B)‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us,
According to our ways and according to our deeds,
So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”

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“I have cut off nations,
Their fortresses are devastated;
I have made their streets desolate,
With none passing by.
Their cities are destroyed;
There is no one, no inhabitant.

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A Lament for Israel

Hear this word which I (A)take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:

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30 The firstborn of the poor will feed,
And the needy will lie down in safety;
I will kill your roots with famine,
And it will slay your remnant.

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namely, (A)five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

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