Jeremiah 47:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵The Anakim who survive^[a]
    in Gaza and Ashkelon
will mourn for you
by shaving their heads
    and sitting in silence.
⁶You ask how long will I continue
    to attack you with my sword,
then you tell me to put it away
    and leave you alone.
⁷But how can my sword rest,
when I have commanded it
    to attack Ashkelon
    and the seacoast?

Read full chapter

Footnotes

47.5 Anakim who survive: One ancient translation; Hebrew “people in the valley who survive.” The Anakim may have been a group of very large people that lived in Palestine before the Israelites (see Numbers 13.33; Deuteronomy 2.10,11, 20,21; and Joshua 11.21,22).