Jeremiah 47:2-4
EasyEnglish Bible
2 ‘Look at what is happening!
Armies in the north are rising like a flood of water.
They will pour out from there like a great river.
They will cover the whole land and everything in it.
They will destroy the cities and the people who live in them.
People will shout for help.
Everyone who lives there will cry with pain.
3 They will hear the sound of their enemies' horses
and the loud noises of their chariots.
Fathers will not turn back to save their children,
because fear has made them weak.
4 The time has come when the Lord will destroy all the Philistines.
None of them will remain to give help to Tyre and Sidon.
The Lord is ready to destroy the Philistines who remain.
Those are the people who came from the island of Crete.[a]
Jeremiah 47:2-4
New International Version
2 This is what the Lord says:
“See how the waters are rising in the north;(A)
they will become an overflowing torrent.
They will overflow the land and everything in it,
the towns and those who live in them.
The people will cry out;
all who dwell in the land will wail(B)
3 at the sound of the hooves of galloping steeds,
at the noise of enemy chariots(C)
and the rumble of their wheels.
Parents will not turn to help their children;
their hands will hang limp.(D)
4 For the day has come
to destroy all the Philistines
and to remove all survivors
who could help Tyre(E) and Sidon.(F)
The Lord is about to destroy the Philistines,(G)
the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.[a](H)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 47:4 That is, Crete
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