Jeremiah 47:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴You refugees from Crete,^[a]
your time has now come,
    and I will destroy you.
None of you will be left
to help the cities
    of Tyre and Sidon.
⁵The Anakim who survive^[b]
    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.

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Footnotes

47.4 Crete: Hebrew “Caphtor,” another name for Crete, the original homeland of the ancestors of the Philistines.
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).