¹关于非利士的预言

¹That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smiteth Gaza:

²耶和华这样说：“看哪！有水从北方涨起，成为一股泛滥的洪流，淹没大地和地上的一切，淹没城镇和住在城中的居民。人必呼喊，地上所有的居民必哀号。

²`Thus said Jehovah: Lo, waters are coming up from the north, And have been for an overflowing stream, And they overflow the land and its fulness, The city, and the inhabitants in it, And men have cried out, And howled hath every inhabitant of the land.

³因为听见战马的蹄声，还有战车辚辚和车轮辘辘的响声，作父亲的双手酸软无力，不能照顾他们的儿女。

³From the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his mighty ones, From the rushing of his chariot, the noise of his wheels, Fathers have not turned unto sons, From feebleness of hands,

⁴日子将到，非利士人必全遭毁灭，所有曾援助推罗和西顿仍然幸存的人必被剪除，因为耶和华要毁灭非利士人，就是迦斐托岛余剩的人。

⁴Because of the day that hath come to spoil all the Philistines, To cut off to Tyre and to Zidon every helping remnant. For Jehovah is spoiling the Philistines, The remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

⁵迦萨成了秃头的，亚实基伦静默无声（“静默无声”或译：“被毁坏了”），在它们的平原上（“在它们的平原上”或参照《七十士译本》译作“亚衲族”﹝参书11:21-22﹞）余剩的人哪，你们划伤自己的身体要到几时呢？”

⁵Come hath baldness unto Gaza, Cut off hath been Ashkelon, O remnant of their valley, Till when dost thou cut thyself?

⁶耶和华的刀剑哪，你要到几时才可停下来呢？请你入鞘吧！休息静止吧！

⁶Ho, sword of Jehovah, till when art thou not quiet? Be removed unto thy sheath, rest and cease.

⁷但耶和华既吩咐了它，又怎能停下来呢？他指派了它去攻击亚实基伦和沿海一带。

⁷How shall it be quiet, And Jehovah hath given a charge to it, Against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? There hath He appointed it!`