1 Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah
the prophet concerning the Philistines,
before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

2 Yahweh says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north,
and will become an overflowing
stream, and will overflow the land and all that is
therein, the city and those who dwell therein.
The men will cry, and all the inhabitants
of the land will wail.

3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs
of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots,
at the rumbling of his wheels,
the fathers don’t look back for their children
because their hands are so feeble,

4 because of the day that comes to destroy
all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every
helper who remains; for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines,
the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.