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1 Thus says the Lord against the Philistines:
2 Behold, waters come up from the north, and shall become a sweeping torrent, and it shall sweep away the land, and its fulness. The city, and them that dwell in it; and men shall cry and all that dwell in the land shall howl,
3 at the sound of his rushing, at [the sound of] his hoofs, 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,
4 in the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines. And I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon and all the rest of their allies; for the Lord will destroy the remaining [inhabitants] of the islands.
5 Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cast away, and the remnant of the Enakim.
6 How long will you smite, O sword of the Lord? How long will it be till you are quiet? Return into your sheath, rest, and be removed.
7 How shall it be quiet, seeing the Lord has given it a commission against Ashkelon, and against the regions on the sea coast, to awake against the remaining [countries]!
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