Chapter Overview
Summary
Oracle against the Philistines. MT ch. 47, LXX ch. 29 (4th in LXX OAN order).
Notable Variants
LXX shorter. Some geographic names differ in form.
Structural Notes
MT ch. 47 = LXX ch. 29. Philistia is 2nd in MT OAN order, 4th in LXX.
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.
LXX and MT are substantially identical here.
This is what the LORD says: Waters are rising from the north — they will become a raging torrent! They will flood the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there. People will cry out; every inhabitant of the land will wail.
LXX and MT are substantially identical here.
At the sound of the pounding hooves of his stallions, the rattling of his chariots, the rumble of his wheels — fathers will not turn back for their children, their hands too limp with terror.
LXX and MT are substantially identical here.
Because of the day that is coming to devastate all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every surviving ally. For the LORD is about to devastate the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
LXX and MT are substantially identical here.
Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is silenced — remnant of their valley. How long will you gash yourself in grief?
LXX and MT are substantially identical here.
O sword of the LORD, how long before you are still? Return to your sheath! Cease — be silent!
LXX and MT are substantially identical here.
How can it be still when the LORD has given it its orders? Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast — there he has appointed it.
LXX and MT are substantially identical here.