耶利米書47:1-7

47:1 法老攻擊迦薩之先，有耶和華論非利士人的話臨到先知耶利米。
47:2 耶和華如此說：有水從北方發起，成為漲溢的河，要漲過遍地和其中所有的，並城和其中所住的。人必呼喊；境內的居民都必哀號。
47:3 聽見敵人壯馬蹄跳的響聲和戰車隆隆、車輪轟轟；為父的手就發軟，不回頭看顧兒女。
47:4 因為日子將到，要毀滅一切非利士人，剪除幫助泰爾、西頓所剩下的人。原來耶和華必毀滅非利士人，就是迦斐託海島餘剩的人。
47:5 迦薩成了光禿；平原中所剩的亞實基倫歸於無有。你用刀劃身，要到幾時呢？
47:6 耶和華的刀劍哪，你到幾時才止息呢？你要入鞘，安靖不動。
47:7 耶和華既吩咐你攻擊亞實基倫和海邊之地，他已經派定你，焉能止息呢？

he word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:

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Thus says the Lord:

See, waters are rising out of the north

and shall become an overflowing torrent;

they shall overflow the land and all that fills it,

the city and those who live in it.

People shall cry out,

and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

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At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,

at the clatter of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,

parents do not turn back for children,

so feeble are their hands,

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because of the day that is coming

to destroy all the Philistines,

to cut off from Tyre and Sidon

every helper that remains.

For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,

the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

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Baldness has come upon Gaza,

Ashkelon is silenced.

O remnant of their power!

How long will you gash yourselves?

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Ah, sword of the Lord!

How long until you are quiet?

Put yourself into your scabbard,

rest and be still!

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How can it be quiet,

when the Lord has given it an order?

Against Ashkelon and against the seashore—

there he has appointed it.

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    先知在此論到埃及要攻打非利士人的事情，讓人知道猶大人被擄到埃及的時代所發生的一些事情，讓後代的讀者可以知道上帝的確是掌管歷史的上帝，每一件事情都在他的安排之中。

    我們所相信的上帝是掌管歷史的上帝，我們可以確定祂的真實性，是真真實實的主宰，不是人憑空捏造的上帝。也因此，我們要勇敢來承認我們的信仰，並且確切的向人介紹上帝的作為！

    我們既然肯定上帝的真實性，就對於祂的應許更有打握！正如信心會產生盼望，有盼望就能確定上帝的愛。這也就是說「信、望、愛」是三者合一的，只要有一就有其他的二！

    讓我們存喜樂的心來盼望耶穌基督的再來吧！