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Baldness[a] is coming to Gaza.
    Ashkelon is silenced.
Remnant of their valley,
    how long will you gash yourself?[b]
Ah, sword of the Lord,
    how long before you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard,
    be at rest, be silent!
How can it be quiet,
    when the Lord has ordered disaster
to come to Ashkelon and the seashore?
    That’s where he has assigned it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 47:5 I.e. the head was shaved as a rite of mourning
  2. Jeremiah 47:5 I.e. people made cuts on their bodies as an act of mourning