Thus saith the Lord, behold, waters rise up out of the north,.... Meaning an army of men, which should come in great numbers, and with great force and rapidity, like an overflowing flood. So the Targum,"behold, people shall come from the north;''that is, from Chaldea, which lay north of Palestine:and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; or, "the fulness of it" ; the land of the Philistines, and carry off the men and cattle, and all the riches thereof;the city, and them that dwell therein; not any particular or single city, as Gaza; but the several cities of Palestine, and the inhabitants of them:then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl; not being able to do anything else; not to defend themselves, their families, and property; and seeing nothing but ruin and destruction before their eyes.
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Jeremiah 47:2
Jeremiah 47:2
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