Judgment on the Philistines The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after that Nabuzardan the captain of the guard had let him go out of Rama, when he had taken him in manacles in the midst of the captivity of Juda, even those who were carried to Babylon.
“Thus says the Lord: Behold, 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 dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And the chief captain of the guard took him, and said to him, The Lord thy God has pronounced all these evils upon this place:
Ⲛⲉⲙ ⲉ̀ⲃⲟⲗ ϩⲁ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲙⲉⲛ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲉϥϩⲁⲣⲙⲁ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲧⲥⲙⲏ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲉϥⲧⲣⲟⲭⲟⲥ. ϫⲉ ⲙ̀ⲡⲟⲩⲫⲟⲛϩⲟⲩ ⲛ̀ϫⲉ ϩⲁⲛⲓⲟϯ ⲉ̀ϫⲉⲛ ⲛⲟⲩϣⲏⲣⲓ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲡⲃⲱⲗ ⲉ̀ⲃⲟⲗ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲟⲩϫⲓϫ and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,
English (Standard • WEB)
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
and the Lord has done it; because ye sinned against him, and hearkened not to his voice.
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.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Behold, I have loosed thee from the manacles that were upon thine hands. If it seem good to thee to go with me to Babylon, then will I set mine eyes upon thee.
Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ash′kelon has perished. O remnant of the Anakim, how long will you gash yourselves?
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
But if not, depart; return to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed governor in the land of Juda, and dwell with him in the midst of the people in the land of Juda: to whatsoever places it seems good in thine eyes to go, do thou even go.
How can it be quiet, when the Lord has given it a charge? Against Ash′kelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.”
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And all the leaders of the host that was in the country, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Godolias governor in the land, and they committed to him the men and their wives, whom Nabuchodonosor had not removed to Babylon.